We take our instruments, our technologies--those artefactual extensions of our practically-oriented capacities--for granted. This is true most of all of our particular languages--those delimited, structured, historically-developed systems of verbal articulation recorded and regulated by dictionaries and grammar textbooks--which we seldom think of as technology at all. No technology receives as much use; though, like all …
Semiotics and Science
Although not yet a widely understood field, semiotics--defined briefly as the study of the action of signs--has begun to make a name for itself; in Europe, at least. Heretofore in the United States, most people outside of a limited circle who believe themselves to know something of "semiotics" know what is in fact semiology, merely …