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	memeio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Semeiotic theories are general theories of signs and deal with how we apprehend the world, make predictions, and communicate.
		memeio explores two things using semeiotic theory - it aims to enhance the process of semeiosis - enabling the creation of marks that are clarified; documents in which the meaning is clear.
		Peirce, who built upon the work of Immanuel Kant and John Locke, is one of the founding father of semeiotics, and is perhaps the greatest of America philosophers, so there is no little irony in these facts.
	www.memeiosis.com (2115 words)

	Talk:Semiotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		That "queer theory" utilizes semeiotics does not make it a branch of semeiotics - it is correct that "queer theory" apparently makes use of semeiotics.
		What I am interested in is an unbias presentation of exactly what semeiotics is, what its particular concerns are, a description of major recognized theories esp. those from Peirce and Saussure, a description of the major personalities and an account of its influence (for example in Logic and Psychology), and links to external relevant resources.
		Semeiotics is miscategorized - it should not primarily be under "critical theory" though there probably should be a redirect from here.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Semiotics (4071 words)

	guddemi.html
		A semeiotic system, which only emerged out of the experience of a single human being and could not be validated by others would, at the least' tend to produce emotional strain and self-doubt in the person who generated it.
		But it should be noted that every semeiotic being, via her or his interactions with other human beings and with the environment, similarly constructs and tests for herself or himself the understanding of reality in which she or he fallibilistically believes.
		It is this bodily as well as semeiotic structural coupling to the environment, integral to the definition and condition of the autopoietic organism, which provides the binding and correction to the unfettered play of signs, establishing the basis for a shared common understanding among human beings in a common task.
	www.uboeschenstein.ch /sal/awtexte/guddemi.html (6073 words)

	Semiotics article - Semiotics signs symbols Scope main concepts History Subfields also External - What-Means.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Semiotics is the study of signs ( symbols) and signification systems.
		General theories of signs are called semeiotics or semiotics.
		Semeiotics is the investigation of apprehension, prediction and meaning; how it is that we apprehend the world, make predictions, and develop meaning.
	www.what-means.com /encyclopedia/Semiotics (617 words)

	semiotics - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Semiotics (also spelled Semeiotics) is the study of signs and sign systems.
		This includes the investigation of apprehension, prediction and meaning : how it is that we develop meaning, make predictions, and apprehend the world.
		The semiotics of videogames are beginning to be explored by various developers and academics, for example in Stephen Poole 's book Trigger Happy.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/semiotics (1004 words)

	DOTT.SSA MARIA ANTONIETTA FUSCO
		Since, for definition, a sign is the evidence of something existing or indicates something existing, in medicine, the science that studies the signs of the diseases, focuses on those observable manifestations, that can indicate the presence of a specific pathology or of an altered physiologic condition.
		Semeiotics deals not only with the description of the pathology, but it also involves the investigation's method and studies the mechanisms that trigger the symptom and give rise to the disease.
		I strongly support the use of semeiotic principles combined with an orthodox scientific method to approach and treat postural disorders.
	www.mariantoniettafusco.com /engl/postMetodoIndag.htm (1362 words)

	Pete's English 30 Blog: Semeiotics
		Semeiotics is kind of a strange thing to explore.
		It isnât often that we take something that is so common and second nature and pick apart the way Pierce so meticulously and abstractly has.
		With Stoppardâs style of writing, infusing numerous references to obscure things, a million signs and levels of semeiotics could be explored.
	petesala.blogspot.com /2005/02/semeiotics.html (798 words)

	From Homo Hierarchicus to Homo Faber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is this thesis that makes Peirce's semeiotics a theory of praxis, one that resonates with some Marxian formulations of human activity.
		Semeiotics is a practice theory that enables systems of meaning to be analyzed not merely as a priori systems of representation or frozen ideational structures.
		Semeiotic theory can handle the reality of overlapping discourses, of disagreement, of non-total, overlapping cultures, of only partial sharings of ideas, of the agency of those of lesser power in structures of domination, of the complicated entanglements of meanings in this "post-colonial" world.
	www.may.ie /academic/anthropology/AAI/IJA/vol2/mines.html (4917 words)

	[peirce-l] Re: [Arisbe] Re: Critique Of Short -- Section 4 --Discussion
		The word "determination" embodies a structural constraint which reminds the thoughtful semeiotician to remain alert to the need to keep focused on semeiotic relations' capacity to be right for the right reasons, even and especially when the semeiotician is focusing on the semeiotics of illusion.
		I think that he never did so, though pragmaticist thinking flows through his semeiotic discussions and flows seemingly gaplessly around his semeiotic conceptions, buoying them up and indeed supporting them in many ways and helping constitute them, such that it would be wrong to say that his semeiotics is not pragmaticist.
		Your argument is then that Peirce's semeiotic at that time _failed to allow as Peirce intended for adequate determination by the object of the sign to the interpretant_.
	stderr.org /pipermail/arisbe/2005-January/002091.html (2767 words)

	bmj.com Rapid Responses for Hense, 327 (7426) 1238-1239
		As a matter of fact, Hense Hans-Werner writes: “The aim is to provide a valid estimate of the probability of a defined cardiovascular event over a period of five or ten years in individuals free of clinical manifestations of cardiovascular disease at the time of examination” (1).
		With the aid of biophysical semeiotics (3), e.g., I examined 300 individuals with family history positive for CAD, and 250 patients suffering from CAD.
		Clinical diagnosis was subsequently corroborated with sophisticated semeiotics.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/eletters/327/7426/1238 (436 words)

	Delsarte System of Oratory eBook
		Art, then, is an act whose semeiotics characterizes the forms produced by the action of powers, which action is determined by aesthetics, and the causes of which are sought out by ontology.
		The object of art, therefore, is to reproduce, by the action of a superior principle (ontology), the organic signs explained by semeiotics, and whose fitness is estimated by aesthetics.
		Semeiotics is the science of the organic signs by which aesthetics must study inherent fitness.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/12200/197.html (340 words)

	Annals of Family Medicine -- Comments for Hickner, 4 (6) 484-485
		Re: Proper Bedside Diagnosis by the aid of Biophysical Semeiotics.
		In fact, nowadays, it is very difficult to know the real nature of an infectious disorder at both the bed-side and ER,as well as to recognize a lot of cases such as those described in the article, not to speak of disorders recognizable by means of academic, orthodox, physical semeiotics.
		For space reasons, I underscore here merely the possibility of recognizing easily and quickly the “chronic” antibodies synthesis in the spleen during flu, as well as the spleen “small” antibody production, in the case of gram-negative bacteria (Esch.coli, HP, a.s.o.), which play a pivotal role in bed-side diagnosis of virus or gram-negative infections (1).
	www.annfammed.org /cgi/eletters/4/6/484 (639 words)

	Semiotics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Semiotics theorises at a general level about signs, while the study of the communication of information in living organisms is covered in biosemiotics.
		The subject was originally spelled semeiotics to honour John Locke ( 1632 â“ 1704), who, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1690), first coined the term "semeiotike" from the Greek word ÏÎ·Î¼ÎµÎ¹Î¿Î½ or semeion, meaning "mark" or "sign".
		Semioticians classify signs and sign systems in relation to the way they are transmitted (see modality).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semiotics (1432 words)

	The Alexander Institute for Classical Studies: Book of Logic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		As any student of semeiotics would emphasize, it is difficult to overestimate the importance a given mode of representation can have to an emerging discipline.
		As one of the acknowledged founders of both semeiotics and modern logic, the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce couldn't help but be aware of broader issues surrounding representation in the course of his pioneering work on logic.
		Along these lines, Peirce sometimes hinted and sometimes claimed that the graphs could shed light on his synechism and his semeiotic; that the graphs were by no means limited to deductive reasonings but could analyze the nature of abductive and inductive reasonings as well.
	www.thealexanderinstituteforclassicalstudies.com /logic.htm (5225 words)

	Indmedica - CyberLectures - Biophysical-Semeiotic Dyslipidaemic Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		To summarize, a part from its inflammatory, infectious, degenerative, metabolic, rheumatic, neoplastic nature, a disease arises and evolves in relation to the individual constitution, since environmental factor, surely determinative, must react with the genetic factor, which is always present.
		Finally, by means of the original physical semeiotics, which proved to be essential and precious in giving rise to Clinical Microangiology, doctor now is able to recognize at the bed-side functional-structural modifications of tissue-microvascular-units, characteristic of the diverse constitutions, starting from two first decades of individual life.
		In a few minutes, Biophysical Semeiotics permits doctor to recognize, at the bed-side and in “quantitative” manner, both the presence of dyslipidaemic constitution and dysplipidaemia, by a large number of methods, which obviously need a very different knowledge of this original semeiotics.
	cyberlectures.indmedica.com /show/50/1/Biophysical-Semeiotic_Dyslipidaemic_Constitution (592 words)

	Peirce Dictionary: Semeiotic, Semiotic, Semeotic, Semeiotics
		"It seems to me that one of the first useful steps toward a science of semeiotic ({sémeiötiké}), or the cenoscopic science of signs, must be the accurate definition, or logical analysis, of the concepts of the science." (Partial draft of a letter to Lady Welby, CP 8.343, 1908)
		For there is but little of this superfluous matter, - too little to make a separate science of, - and it is needed for its linguistic and rhetorical applications, as well as having a value simply as truth; and a simpler unity is thus given to logic.
		I might, therefore, very well call it speculative semeiotic." ('Reason's Conscience: A Practical Treatise on the Theory of Discovery; wherein Logic is conceived as Semeiotic', MS 693: 188-190, 1904)
	www.helsinki.fi /science/commens/terms/semeiotic.html (601 words)

	bmj.com Rapid Responses for Berkley et al., 326 (7385) 361
		The results of this prospective cohort study are really interesting, underscoring the importance of both “clinical” symptomatology and physical examination in identifying clinical indicators of immediate, early, and late mortality not only in underdeveloped countries, but also elsewhere, i.e.
		In addition, in my mind, this intriguing paper is of paramount importance particularly for physicians who are working at the bed-side, in their day-to-day practice, in a world otherwise ruled by high sophisticated semeiotics.
		In fact, speaking about cartesian dualism and mechanical determinism, to-day’s physical acàdemic semeiotics is based on, I should like to suggest that we have to move beyond both of them, because they proved not to be particularly useful in solving our essential medical problems, e.g., preventive medicine essential questions.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/eletters/326/7385/361 (498 words)

	Medscape Discussion Boards - Bed-side screening Abdominal Aorta Aneurism with Biophysical Semeiotics.
		I am very delighted with MASSG’s article (1) as well as with similar papers, which come to the conclusion: “Even at four years the cost effectiveness of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms is at the margin of acceptability according to current NHS thresholds.
		Surely, the cost at 10 years improves in comparison with that of the former randomised controlled trial, in which patients were individually allocated to invitation to ultrasound screening (intervention), due to the fact that individuals are selected somehow.
		In reality, I like such articles, emphasing somehow the urgency of spreading a new physical semeiotics, i.e., Biophysical Semeiotics, in a medical world, ruled by high technology, in order to recognize at the bed-side disorders otherwise undiagnosed in unexpensive way (Stagnaro S., BMJ.com, Rapid Response, A new physical semeiotics in detecting disorders otherwise undiagnosed.
	boards.medscape.com /forums?50@20.pIxfacMcdDa.0@.eea5f63 (388 words)

	Gut -- eLetters for Neale, 52 (5) 770-771
		Re: Bed-side diagnosing acute appendicitis and gastrointestinal diseases
		In fact physical semeiotics is poor, if applied to some biological systems.
		As far as clinical gastroenteroly is concerned, I must to point out that such a statement is true, but exclusively for physicians who know exclusively the old, traditional, academic physical examination.
	gut.bmjjournals.com /cgi/eletters/52/5/770-a (677 words)

	Fundamental concepts of biophysical Semeiotics
		Allthough the precise mathematical definition of “chaos” is somewhat complicated, its presence in the body can be characterized by two things: first, it is there by design, for instance it is not caused by the random firing of neurons; second, the behaviour of a chaotic system is complicated and unpredictable.
		Notoriously, the stomach is ruled by upper and lower neuronal plexus, that are in direct relation with celiac plexus, in which bring to an end numerous reflexes, caused by trigger-points stimulation of allmost every tissue.
		Therefore, doctor who will learn Biophysical Semeiotics has to study, first of all, this application, that allows him to recognize clinically, for instance, promptly and easy, an acute or chronic appendicitis, indipendently from its location and/or seriousness.
	digilander.libero.it /semeioticabiofisica/Concepts.htm (293 words)

	Letters from Iceland: THE TEN TYPES OF REPRESENTAMENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For instance, there are some representamens that we are not even the least bit aware of, so we give no attention to them; and we are not at all involved with the representamen, it has no bearing or effect on our lives; and we have no knowledge about the representamen.
		For the son it is probably sign operating at the highest semeiotic level; it is for him the evidence and the argument of his death all rolled up into a single image.
		It will always be the case that a representamen at any particular semeiotic valence state will also have operating within it a complex of representamens resonating at all of the lower states.
	charnesky.blogspot.com /2005/02/ten-types-of-representamens.html (11913 words)

	SEMEIOTICS
		Noun: indication; symbolism, symbolization; semiology, semiotics, semeiology, semeiotics ; Zeitgeist.
		"SEMEIOTICS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: semeiotica, siemiotics.
		Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora ( additional references).
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /Se/Semeiotics.html (293 words)

	bmj.com Rapid Responses for Pukkala et al., 325 (7364) 567
		Re: Genes and Cancer: The clinical View-Point of Biophysical Semeiotics.
		In fact, in order to achieve efficacious cancer prevention on very large scale it is unavoidable that the modifications occurring in the biological control system could be easily, promptly, and “quantitatively” ascertained and properly evaluated with the aid of a “clinical” method, i.e.
		by the use of a sthetoscope, and certainly without application of sophisticated semeiotics, that does not surely be applied in all individuals, and, moreover, only a few doctors can utilize them.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/eletters/325/7364/567 (1212 words)

	ClinMed NetPrints -- eLetters for Koudinov and Koudinova, 2001100005v1
		Sirs, in a previous paper (http://digilander.iol.it/semeioticabiofisica) I described an original biophysical semeiotic method, easy to apply at the bed si-de and reliable in recognizing Alzheimer’s Disease, even in initial and/or symptomless stage (See later on).
		I agree with R Kale (1) who wrote that “tackling the problems posed by the neurodegenerative disorders is difficult.
		Briefly, in healthy, from the microcirculatory point of view, during stress test both vasomotility (chaotic-deterministic oscillations of arterioles) and vasomotility (chaotic-deterministic fluctuations of nutritional capillaries and post-capillary venules) particularly in hippocampus, pre- frontal and parietal cerebral regions are maximally activated.
	clinmed.netprints.org /cgi/eletters/2001100005v1 (1863 words)

	BioMed Central \| Comments \| Relationship between apolipoprotein(a) size polymorphism and coronary heart disease in ...
		Biophysical Semeiotics is really useful in order to bed-side recognizing heart ischaemic disease, even before its onset, i.e., real risk of coronary artery disease.
		With the aid of biophysical semeiotics (1) I examined 300 individuals with family history positive for CAD, and
		Biophysical Semeiotics allows doctors to recognize clinically patients involved by both risk of CAD, and CAD, even silent, years or decades before disorder onset.
	www.biomedcentral.com /1471-2261/3/12/comments (468 words)

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