semeiotics
Americannoun
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It is, after all, a precise and yet various system of semeiotics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such persistence in the same fact could not allow of the shadow of a doubt: I possessed the sign-language of death, the semeiotics of the dead.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
Let us say that wisdom and reason are to intelligence what æsthetics and semeiotics are to art.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
Art, then, is an act whose semeiotics characterizes the forms produced by the action of powers, which action is determined by æsthetics, and the causes of which are sought out by ontology.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
I, therefore, possessed the fundamental principle of a system of semeiotics hitherto unknown to physiologists; but this principle, already so full of interest, must be made profitable to art.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
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