semeiotics
Americannoun
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It is, after all, a precise and yet various system of semeiotics.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is clearly easier to translate a language than to write it, and just as we must learn to translate before we can compose, so we must become thoroughly familiar with semeiotics before trying to work at æsthetics; and, as the science of semeiotics is still wholly incomplete, it is, therefore, absolutely impossible that that which is called æsthetics should in the least resemble the science which I have just defined.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
Semeiotics is the science of the organic signs by which æsthetics must study inherent fitness.
From Project Gutenberg
If semeiotics does not tell us the passion which the sign reveals, how can æsthetics indicate to us the sign which it should apply to the passion that it studies?
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