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	Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms
		But because signification is, as it were, the fulfillment of a term, and the properties of terms are founded on signification, for the sake of clarity in what follows we must at the outset consider what the signification of a term is, and how it differs from supposition", tr.
		Signification contrasts with the other properties of terms in one major respect, for the other properties (perhaps with the exception of appellation in some authors, and natural supposition) are all properties of terms relative to their occurrence in particular propositions -- indeed, they are properties of occurrences of terms.
		Signification, however, is had by a term prior to its particular uses or occurrences: "Now signification differs from supposition in that signification is prior to supposition", tr.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/medieval-terms (6013 words)

	Signification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Signification is the act of signifying or being a sign or meaning.
		The term signification is also used to mean importance or consequence.
		Signifyin(g) (Gates) or signifyin' (slang) is an African-American rhetorical device featuring indirect communication or persuasion and the creating of new meanings for old words and signs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Signification (255 words)

	Signification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Signification is the result of presenting and selecting, as Hall notes, and the media can play a crucial role.
		Language is a vehicle of signification as well as a manifestation of it.
		Signification of an idea is based on popular assumption, and lends credence to the idea or event.
	www.unc.edu /courses/2000fall/jomc245-001/signification.html (219 words)

	Lambert of Auxerre: Properties of Terms
		Of these, relation should be discussed earlier, but because signification is, as it were, the fulfillment of a term, and the properties of terms are founded on signification, for the sake of clarity in what follows we must at the outset consider what the signification of a term is, and how it differs from supposition.
		The signification of a term is the concept of a thing, a concept on which an utterance is imposed by the will of the person instituting the term.
		For the signification is the concept of the thing represented by means of the utterance, and before the union of it with the utterance there is no term; rather, a term is constituted in the union of that concept of a thing with an utterance.
	www.fordham.edu /gsas/phil/klima/MEDPHIL/Lambert.htm (4305 words)

	Philip Tagg \| Review of 'Music and Cultural Theory' by John Shepherd and Peter Wicke (1998)
		Consequently, we move to other authorities, in particular Middleton, and to the question of 'primary' and 'secondary' signification, because it is now emerges that the authors intend to concentrate on a 'second semiology' of music related to 'primary signification', a semiology in which 'the characteristic mode of operation of'...
		The authors' preoccupation with 'primary signification', in my mind a nebulous concept which became even more elusive by reading their book, may be justifiable, but answers to questions about musical meaning are far more likely to be found in integration than in antagonistic confrontation with other types of signification.
		The pragmatics of musical signification can therefore be understood to cover such phenomena as, on the one hand, the sociocultural position and signifying intentions of those 'transmitting', making or producing music, and, on the other hand, the sociocultural position, interpretations, reactions, functions, uses, etc. made by those hearing the same music.
	www.tagg.org /articles/shepwik1.html (8452 words)

	Book III of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
		If the signification of the names of mixed modes be uncertain, because there be no real standards existing in nature to which those ideas are referred, and by which they may be adjusted, the names of substances are of a doubtful signification, for a contrary reason, viz.
		For were their signification precisely the same, it would be as proper, and as intelligible to say, "the body of an extension," as the "extension of a body"; and yet there are those who find it necessary to confound their signification.
		The proper signification and use of terms is best to be learned from those who in their writings and discourses appear to have had the clearest notions, and applied to them their terms with the exactest choice and fitness.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/texts/locke/locke1/Book3b.html (10930 words)

	Kristeva, Julia
		First, she argues that the logic of signification is already present in the material body.
		Within Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, signification is the result of a separation, a lack, which begins in the mirror stage and is completed through castration.
		One of Kristeva's major contributions to literary theory is her distinction between two heterogeneous elements in signification: the semiotic and the symbolic.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/julia_kristeva.html (1560 words)

	SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is signification expressed by words necessary for a sacrament? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		And therefore in order to insure the perfection of sacramental signification it was necessary to determine the signification of the sensible things by means of certain words.
		For water may signify both a cleansing by reason of its humidity, and refreshment by reason of its being cool: but when we say, "I baptize thee," it is clear that we use water in baptism in order to signify a spiritual cleansing.
		Although words and other sensible things are not in the same genus, considered in their natures, yet have they something in common as to the thing signified by them: which is more perfectly done in words than in other things.
	www.newadvent.org /summa/406006.htm (910 words)

	Medieval Theories of Singular Terms
		Moreover, meaning is not transitive, but signification is. A spoken word was said to be a conventional sign of a concept, which in turn, at least for later authors, was a natural sign of a thing, and so spoken words were said to be at least indirect signs of things.
		If we take signification in a narrow sense, as a technical notion, we find that there were two not entirely compatible approaches, each based on a sentence from Aristotle, and each emphasizing the role of concepts, whether the hearer's or the speaker's.
		Concepts were said to signify naturally, and to have the same signification for all thinkers, or at least all thinkers with the same experience, but spoken terms, and the written terms which were subordinated to them, were thought to acquire their signification by some original act of imposition.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/singular-terms-medieval (7434 words)

	Apocalypse Explained (Whitehead) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This is evident from the signification of "the earth," as being the whole spiritual world, consequently all angels and spirits there.
		This is the signification of "the earth" in the general and nearest sense, because in the spiritual world, the same as on our globe, there are lands, mountains, hills, plains, valleys, and also seas (respecting which see above, n.
		This being the signification of "earth," "sea," and "tree," the three joined together in one idea signify all things in the spiritual world even to its ultimates in those who have any perception.
	www.theheavenlydoctrines.org /static/d11722/420.htm (352 words)

	Biology of Signification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Signification is not a term one often meets in biological literature and few scientists seem to have paid much attention to the question of how there can possibly be such a thing as signification in the world.
		That signification in this sense is constitutive for human life is hard to deny since the very act of denying it would itself be a linguistic and thus significative act.
		The existence of signification therefore challenges biological theory to find out what are the roots for this phenomenon in pre-human nature.
	www.molbio.ku.dk /MolBioPages/abk/PersonalPages/Jesper/Biosignification.html (5999 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature
		IGNIFICATION in Language and Culture is an anthology of papers presented at the international symposium on Signification in Buddhist and French Traditions (with its impact on later developments in India and Europe) held at the Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, in September 2001.
		In the sixth and the seventh centuries AD, Buddhist logicians Dignaga and Dharmakirti, proposed a theory of signification and creativity, called apoha, which dealt with the complexities of a linguistic and ontological universe in terms of dialectical and dichotomising relations between all related but distinct entities of human discourses.
		Ordinary people do not realise the signification of nouns and verbs and their impact on ideas and ideologies.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20030608/spectrum/book4.htm (632 words)

	Alf Björnberg \| Music Video and the Semiotics of Popular Music (1992)
		Music and meaning In discussions of signification and meaning in music, the non-referentiality of music is often stressed: musical structures, as distinguished from verbal language, are void of denotations, and musical meaning arises from the connotations or associations which the music effects on part of the listener.
		Secondary signification in music may arise in a number of ways; Middleton [1990,232] quotes from Stefani an extensive list of various types of such musical meaning, related to different structural levels ranging from single elements in a particular piece of music to entire musical styles.
		At the level of visual content, various kinds of musical secondary signification are visualised, often in combination with the visualisation of the semantic content of song lyrics on a micro- and/or (narrative) macro-level.
	www.mediamusicstudies.net /tagg/others/bjbgvideo.html (3410 words)

	Locke ECHU BOOK III Chapter II Of the Signification of Words
		When a man speaks to another, it is that he may be understood: and the end of speech is, that those sounds, as marks, may make known his ideas to the hearer.
		But so far as words are of use and signification, so far is there a constant connexion between the sound and the idea, and a designation that the one stands for the other; without which application of them, they are nothing but so much insignificant noise.
		But whatever be the consequence of any man's using of words differently, either from their general meaning, or the particular sense of the person to whom he addresses them; this is certain, their signification, in his use of them, is limited to his ideas, and they can be signs of nothing else.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/philos/classics/locke/ctb3c02.htm (836 words)

	The Historical Nature of Myth
		Denotation or the first order of signification is represented as (E R C); the correlation of the signifier or expression (E) in relation (R) to the signified or content (C).
		For example, in the connotative second order of signification, the denotative sign of Bart Simpson on a skate board (E1 R1 C1 or E2) becomes the signifier in relation (R2) understood in a context of youthful activity as an expression of fun and excitement (C2).
		Central to interpretation of the form that carries myth is the context of signification which manifest in ideological representations within a narrative structure.
	www.wright.edu /~elliot.gaines/analysisofmyth.htm (4719 words)

	Barthes-Myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		But before listing the characters of the signification, one must reflect a little on the way in which it is prepared, that is, on the modes of correlation of the mythical concept and the mythical form.
		On the surface of language something has stopped moving: the use of the signification is here, hiding behind the fact, and conferring on it a notifying look; but at the same time, the fact paralyses the intention, gives it something like a malaise producing immobility: in order to make it innocent, it freezes it.
		The will to weigh the signification with the full guarantee of nature causes a kind of nausea; myth is too rich, and what is in excess is precisely its motivation.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~DRBR/myth.html (15757 words)

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		The system lends itself to a model of signification that links signifier to signified in direct correspondence, for there is a one-to-one relation between the key and the letter it produces.
		In contrast to Lacanian psycholinguistics, derived from the generative coupling of linguistics and sexuality, flickering signification is the progeny of the fascinating and troubling coupling of language and machine.
		Rather it is her construction as a cyborg, her recognition that her physicality is also data made flesh, another flickering signifier in a chain of signification that extends through many levels, from the DNA that in-formats her body to the binary code that is the computer's first language.
	www.english.ucla.edu /faculty/hayles/Flick.html (8178 words)

	Introduction to Algirdas Greimas, Module on Plotting
		To put this another way, the connection between signification and the real world is completely arbitrary; however, signification is in itself not arbitrary since language tends to follow structural rules.
		Greimas' goal is purely structuralist: he wishes to find the deep structures by which all signification orders the world of perception.
		Signification can be concealed behind all sensible phenomena; it is present behind sounds, but also behind images, odors, and flavors, without being in sounds or in images (as perceptions)" (17).
	www.cla.purdue.edu /academic/engl/theory/narratology/modules/greimasplotmainframe.html (1152 words)

	AS/SA Nº5, p.303; Rastier: "On Signs and Texts" (1/27)
		Signification results indeed from decontextualisation, a dispelling of context, as one may see in lexical semantics and terminology.
		In this respect signification is a stake of high relevance for ontological questioning, since traditionally Being has been characterised as identity with oneself.
		Three paradigms of signification centered on the sign, can be said to dominate the history of Western linguistic ideas: reference, inference, and difference.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /french/as-sa/ASSA-No5/FR1.htm (810 words)

	Nominalist Reading Room - SHIMIZU Tetsuro - From Vocalism to Nominalism - Progression in Abaelard's Theory of ...
		This characteristic of signification is unique in the Glossae `I', and worth attending to; for Abaelard revises this theory again after the Glossae `I', as we shall argue later with reference to the Glossulae `NPS'.
		The first kind of signification is concerned with Aspect 1, the other three with Aspect 2; objects are things in 1 and 2, the act of understanding in 3, and the form, or mental image, in 4.
		In addition, signification in the broader sense corresponds to Priscian's statement that a noun signifies a substance and a quality, while signification in the strict sense to the comment in the Glosule on Priscian that a noun names a substance but signifies a quality, as quoted in note 12 above.
	evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /nominalism_tetsuro.htm (10313 words)

	wittgenstein
		Since the new perspective arises from what, we think, could be seen as an epistemological changing, the foundation of this new philosophical setting requires a deep philosophical background analysis, centred mostly on those aspects of western philosophy which regard the knowledge/signification relation.
		Meaning as a use, as a matter of facts, although avoids to slide within a psychologistical conceiving, lets too fast out of the door the role which the consciousness carries on within signification, although it is socially constituted and conditioned.
		And the basic point of all that question is maybe just the fact to choose one or the other pole of the subject-object relation by carrying the theoretical and methodological consequences to the extremes.
	fuentes.csh.udg.mx /CUCSH/Sincronia/wittgens.html (3603 words)

	Locke ECHU BOOK III Chapter IX Of the Imperfection of Words
		Words havingnaturally no signification, the idea which each stands for must be learned and retained, by those who would exchange thoughts, and hold intelligible discourse with others, in any language.
		It is true,common use, that is, the rule of propriety may be supposed here to afford some aid, to settle the signification of language; and it cannot be denied but that in some measure it does.
		Sure I am that the signification of words in all languages,depending very much on the thoughts, notions, and ideas of him that uses them, must unavoidably be of great uncertainty to men of the same language and country.
	www.rbjones.com /rbjpub/philos/classics/locke/ctb3c09.htm (3275 words)

	Vectors for Glen
		In any meaningful discussion this signification would be appropriately called for, and the constant point that this is not necessarily one or other disciplines avoids the issue that the disciplines only ask for signification because ordinary speech and thought calls for signification.
		I'm asking for signification in general, however such a general request is aiming for a specific signification, whether in or out of the disciplines.
		RKS: You seem to be having a genuine problem here, though I've repeated a clear signification a number of times (which is why I have explored side issues, having already thoroughly dealt with the main issue).
	www.sturmsoft.com /robert/vectors_for_glen.htm (714 words)

	William Lilly - Of the Twelve Houses, their Nature and Signification
		It hath signification of the life of man, of the stature, colour, complexion, form and shape of him that propounds the Question, or is born; in Eclipses and Great Conjunctions, and upon the Sun his annual ingress into Aries; it signifieth the common people, or general state of that Kingdom where the figure is erected.
		Hath signification of brethren, sisters, cousins or kindred, neighbours, small journeys, or inland-journeys, oft removing from one place to another, epistles, letters, rumours, messengers: It doth rule the shoulders, arms, hands and fingers.
		It hath of the signs Aquarius, and Sun of the planets, for cosignificators; Jupiter doth especially rejoice in this house; it's a succeedent house, and masculine, and in virtue is equivalent either to the seventh or fourth houses.
	www.skyscript.co.uk /lilly_houses.html (1242 words)

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