Semiosphere, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 103 relations: Aboutness, Abstraction, Aesthetics, Aether (classical element), Analytical psychology, Anthropocene, Architecture, Atmosphere (architecture and spatial design), Baluster, Baruch Spinoza, Biology, Biosemiotics, Biosphere, Categories (Peirce), Charles Sanders Peirce, Code (semiotics), Cognitive dissonance, Consonance and dissonance, Continental philosophy, Cultural globalization, Dasein, Datafication, Decoding (semiotics), Deleuze and Guattari, Determinism, Dog whistle (politics), Dramaturgy (sociology), Dysphoria, Edmund Husserl, Emergence, Encoding (semiotics), Epistemology, Erín Moure, Ethics (Spinoza book), Euclidean plane, Experience, Facet (geometry), Field theory (psychology), Flâneur, Four-dimensional space, Freud's psychoanalytic theories, Gate, Global village, Gravidity and parity, Hermeneutic circle, Hyperreality, Installation art, Intelligibility (communication), Internet culture, Jakob Johann von Uexküll, ... Expand index (53 more) »

2. Daseinsanalysis
3. Environmental studies
4. Russian formalism

Aboutness

Aboutness is a term used in library and information science (LIS), linguistics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

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Abstraction

Abstraction is a process wherein general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples, literal (real or concrete) signifiers, first principles, or other methods.

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.

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Aether (classical element)

According to ancient and medieval science, aether (alternative spellings include æther, aither, and ether), also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere.

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Analytical psychology

Analytical psychology (Analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology and referred to as Jungian analysis) is a term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, to describe research into his new "empirical science" of the psyche.

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Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the name for a proposed geological epoch, dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth up to the present day.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Atmosphere (architecture and spatial design)

In architecture, spatial design, literary theory, and film theory—affective atmosphere (colloquially called atmosphere) refers to the mood, situation, or sensorial qualities of a space.

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Baluster

A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features.

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Baruch Spinoza

Baruch (de) Spinoza (24 November 163221 February 1677), also known under his Latinized pen name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin.

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Biology

Biology is the scientific study of life.

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Biosemiotics

Biosemiotics (from the Greek βίος bios, "life" and σημειωτικός sēmeiōtikos, "observant of signs") is a field of semiotics and biology that studies the prelinguistic meaning-making, biological interpretation processes, production of signs and codes and communication processes in the biological realm. Semiosphere and Biosemiotics are semiotics.

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Biosphere

The biosphere, also called the ecosphere, is the worldwide sum of all ecosystems.

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Categories (Peirce)

On May 14, 1867, the 27–year-old Charles Sanders Peirce, who eventually founded pragmatism, presented a paper entitled "On a New List of Categories" to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce (September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American scientist, mathematician, logician, and philosopher who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".

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Code (semiotics)

In the broadest sense, a code is a (learnt, or arbitrary, or conventional) correspondence or rule between patterns. Semiosphere and code (semiotics) are semiotics.

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Cognitive dissonance

In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is described as the mental disturbance people feel when their cognitions and actions are inconsistent or contradictory.

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Consonance and dissonance

In music, consonance and dissonance are categorizations of simultaneous or successive sounds.

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Continental philosophy

Continental philosophy is an umbrella term for philosophies prominent in continental Europe.

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Cultural globalization

Cultural globalization refers to the transmission of ideas, meanings and values around the world in such a way as to extend and intensify social relations.

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Dasein

Dasein (sometimes spelled as Da-sein) is a German word meaning 'existence'.

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Datafication

Datafication is a technological trend turning many aspects of our life into data which is subsequently transferred into information realised as a new form of value.

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Decoding (semiotics)

Decoding, in semiotics, is the process of interpreting a message sent by an addresser (sender) to an addressee (receiver). Semiosphere and Decoding (semiotics) are semiotics.

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Deleuze and Guattari

Gilles Deleuze, a French philosopher, and Félix Guattari, a French psychoanalyst and political activist, wrote a number of works together (besides both having distinguished independent careers).

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Determinism

Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable.

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Dog whistle (politics)

In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition.

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Dramaturgy (sociology)

Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective that analyzes micro-sociological accounts of everyday social interactions through the analogy of performativity and theatrical dramaturgy, dividing such interactions between "actors", "audience" members, and various "front" and "back" stages.

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Dysphoria

Dysphoria is a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction.

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Edmund Husserl

Edmund Gustav Albrecht Husserl (8 April 1859 – 27 April 1938) was an Austrian-German philosopher and mathematician who established the school of phenomenology.

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Emergence

In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.

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Encoding (semiotics)

Encoding, in semiotics, is the process of creating a message for transmission by an addresser to an addressee. Semiosphere and Encoding (semiotics) are semiotics.

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Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge.

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Erín Moure

Erín Moure (born 1955 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian poet and translator with 18 books of poetry, a coauthored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of articles on translation, a poetics, and two memoirs.

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Ethics (Spinoza book)

Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order (Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata), usually known as the Ethics, is a philosophical treatise written in Latin by Baruch Spinoza (Benedictus de Spinoza).

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Euclidean plane

In mathematics, a Euclidean plane is a Euclidean space of dimension two, denoted \textbf^2 or \mathbb^2.

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Experience

Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes.

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Facet (geometry)

In geometry, a facet is a feature of a polyhedron, polytope, or related geometric structure, generally of dimension one less than the structure itself.

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Field theory (psychology)

In topological and vector psychology, field theory is a psychological theory that examines patterns of interaction between the individual and the total field, or environment.

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Flâneur

Flâneur is a French term popularized in the nineteenth-century for a type of urban male "stroller", "lounger", "saunterer", or "loafer".

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Four-dimensional space

Four-dimensional space (4D) is the mathematical extension of the concept of three-dimensional space (3D).

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Freud's psychoanalytic theories

Sigmund Freud (6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) is considered to be the founder of the psychodynamic approach to psychology, which looks to unconscious drives to explain human behavior.

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Gate

A gate or gateway is a point of entry to or from a space enclosed by walls.

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Global village

Global village describes the phenomenon of the entire world becoming more interconnected as the result of the propagation of media technologies throughout the world.

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Gravidity and parity

In biology and medicine, gravidity and parity are the number of times a female has been pregnant (gravidity) and carried the pregnancies to a viable gestational age (parity).

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Hermeneutic circle

The hermeneutic circle (hermeneutischer Zirkel) describes the process of understanding a text hermeneutically.

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Hyperreality

Hyperreality is a concept in post-structuralism that refers to the process of the evolution of notions of reality, leading to a cultural state of confusion between signs and symbols invented to stand in for reality, and direct perceptions of consensus reality.

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Installation art

Installation art is an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space.

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Intelligibility (communication)

In speech communication, intelligibility is a measure of how comprehensible speech is in given conditions.

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Internet culture

Internet culture is a quasi-underground culture developed and maintained among frequent and active users of the Internet (also known as netizens) who primarily communicate with one another online as members of online communities; that is, a culture whose influence is "mediated by computer screens" and information communication technology, specifically the Internet.

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Jakob Johann von Uexküll

Jakob Johann Freiherr von Uexküll (– 25 July 1944) was a Baltic German biologist who worked in the fields of muscular physiology and animal behaviour studies and was an influence on the cybernetics of life.

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Jesper Hoffmeyer

Jesper Hoffmeyer (21 February 1942 – 25 September 2019) was a professor at the University of Copenhagen Institute of Biology, and a leading figure in the emerging field of biosemiotics.

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Juri Lotman

Juri Lotman (Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu.

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Kalevi Kull

Kalevi Kull (born 12 August 1952, Tartu) is a biosemiotics professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia.

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Kantianism

Kantianism (Kantianismus) is the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher born in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).

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Lifeworld

Lifeworld (or life-world) (Lebenswelt) may be conceived as a universe of what is self-evident or given, a world that subjects may experience together.

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Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson (born July 22, 1961) is a Canadian poet, essayist and translator.

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Mediatization (or medialization) is a method whereby the mass media influence other sectors of society, including politics, business, culture, entertainment, sport, religion, or education.

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Method of loci

The method of loci is a strategy for memory enhancement, which uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information.

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Mihai Nadin

Mihai Nadin (born February 2, 1938, in Braşov, Romania) is a scholar and researcher in electrical engineering, computer science, aesthetics, semiotics, human-computer interaction (HCI), computational design, post-industrial society, and anticipatory systems.

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Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (mʲɪxɐˈil mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ bɐxˈtʲin; – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language.

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Mind–body dualism

In the philosophy of mind, mind–body dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical,Hart, W. D. 1996.

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Mitwelt

Mitwelt is a German term used in existential therapy to refer to an individual's social or cultural environment.

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Monosemy

Monosemy means 'one-meaning' and is a methodology primarily for lexical semantic analysis, but which has widespread applicability throughout the various strata of language.

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Mood (psychology)

In psychology, a mood is an affective state.

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Myth

Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives that play a fundamental role in a society.

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Mythopoeic thought

Mythopoeic thought is a hypothetical stage of human thought preceding modern thought, proposed by Henri Frankfort and his wife Henriette Antonia Frankfort in the 1940s, based on their interpretation of evidence from archaeology and cultural anthropology.

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Neologism

In linguistics, a neologism (also known as a coinage) is any newly formed word, term, or phrase that nevertheless has achieved popular or institutional recognition and is becoming accepted into mainstream language.

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Neuroplasticity

Neuroplasticity, also known as neural plasticity or brain plasticity, is the ability of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization.

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Office for Metropolitan Architecture

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an international architectural firm with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia.

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Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of being.

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Other (philosophy)

Other is a term used to define another person or people as separate from oneself.

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Parasitism

Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.

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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

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Phenomenology (philosophy)

Phenomenology is the philosophical study of objectivity and reality (more generally) as subjectively lived and experienced.

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Phenomenon

A phenomenon (phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable event.

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Pleasure garden

A pleasure garden is a park or garden that is open to the public for recreation and entertainment.

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Polysemy

Polysemy is the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings.

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Procedural knowledge

Procedural knowledge (also known as know-how, knowing-how, and sometimes referred to as practical knowledge, imperative knowledge, or performative knowledge) is the knowledge exercised in the performance of some task.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Roland Barthes

Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.

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Scientific method

The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century.

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Semiosis

Semiosis, or sign process, is any form of activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. Semiosphere and Semiosis are semiotics.

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Semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce began writing on semiotics, which he also called semeiotics, meaning the philosophical study of signs, in the 1860s, around the time that he devised his system of three categories. Semiosphere and semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce are semiotics.

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Semiotics of culture

Semiotics of culture is a research field within semiotics that attempts to define culture from semiotic perspective and as a type of human symbolic activity, creation of signs and a way of giving meaning to everything around. Semiosphere and semiotics of culture are semiotics.

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Sense

A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the surroundings through the detection of stimuli.

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Sensory nervous system

The sensory nervous system is a part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information.

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Sign (semiotics)

In semiotics, a sign is anything that communicates a meaning that is not the sign itself to the interpreter of the sign. Semiosphere and sign (semiotics) are semiotics.

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Simulacrum

A simulacrum (simulacra or simulacrums, from Latin simulacrum, meaning "likeness, semblance") is a representation or imitation of a person or thing.

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Social alienation is a person's feeling of disconnection from a group whether friends, family, or wider society with which the individual has an affiliation.

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A social space is physical or virtual space such as a social center, online social media, or other gathering place where people gather and interact.

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Sociology of space

The sociology of space is a sub-discipline of sociology that mostly borrows from theories developed within the discipline of geography, including the sub fields of human geography, economic geography, and feminist geography.

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Statue

A statue is a free-standing sculpture in which the realistic, full-length figures of persons or animals are carved or cast in a durable material such as wood, metal or stone.

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Story structure

Story structure or narrative structure is the recognizable or comprehensible way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and sometimes specifically referring to the ordering of the plot: the narrative series of events, though this can vary based on culture.

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Subject and object (philosophy)

The distinction between subject and object is a basic idea of philosophy.

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Symbolic interactionism

Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to humans' particular use of shared language to create common symbols and meanings, for use in both intra- and interpersonal communication. Semiosphere and Symbolic interactionism are semiotics.

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Terrace garden

A terrace garden is a garden with a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooking a prospect.

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The Real

In continental philosophy, the Real refers to the demarcation of reality that is correlated with subjectivity and intentionality.

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The Symbolic

The Symbolic (or Symbolic Order of the Borromean knot) is the order in the unconscious that gives rise to subjectivity and bridges intersubjectivity between two subjects; an example is Jacques Lacan's idea of desire as the desire of the Other, maintained by the Symbolic's subjectification of the Other into speech.

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Trichotomy (philosophy)

A trichotomy is a three-way classificatory division.

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.

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Umwelt

In the semiotic theories of Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas Sebeok, umwelt (plural: umwelten; from the German Umwelt meaning "environment" or "surroundings") is the "biological foundations that lie at the very center of the study of both communication and signification in the human animal". Semiosphere and umwelt are semiotics.

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Urn

An urn is a vase, often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal.

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Vladimir Vernadsky

Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky, also spelt Volodymyr Ivanovych Vernadsky (Владимир Иванович Вернадский, Володимир Іванович Вернадський; – 6 January 1945) was a Russian, Ukrainian, and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who is considered one of the founders of geochemistry, biogeochemistry, and radiogeology.

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See also

Daseinsanalysis

• Being and Time
• Being in the World
• Charles Guignon
• Contributions to Philosophy
• Daseinsanalysis
• Dominique Janicaud
• Existenz (journal)
• Françoise Dastur
• Graeme Nicholson
• Ludwig Binswanger
• Lukacs and Heidegger
• Martin Heidegger
• Medard Boss
• Roland Kuhn
• Semiosphere
• Stephen Erickson
• Thomas Sheehan (philosopher)
• Werner Marx
• Zollikon Seminars

Environmental studies

• Biodiversity Monitoring Switzerland
• Cold and heat adaptations in humans
• Commodification of nature
• Ecocriticism
• Environment and Urbanization ASIA
• Environmental humanities
• Environmental science
• Environmental studies
• Geovisualization
• Human ecology
• Master of Environmental Management
• Master of Resource Management
• Outdoors
• Outline of environmental studies
• Prisoner's dilemma
• Queer ecology
• Semiosphere
• Sustainability studies
• Urban semiotics

Russian formalism

• Boris Eikhenbaum
• Boris Tomashevsky
• David Vygodsky
• Fabula and syuzhet
• Grigory Gukovsky
• Iron Foundry
• LEF (journal)
• Mark Slonim
• Moscow linguistic circle
• OPOJAZ
• Pavel Medvedev (scholar)
• Russian formalism
• Semiosphere
• Viktor Shklovsky
• Viktor Zhirmunsky
• Yury Tynyanov

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiosphere

, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Juri Lotman, Kalevi Kull, Kantianism, Lifeworld, Lisa Robertson, Mediatization (media), Method of loci, Mihai Nadin, Mikhail Bakhtin, Mind–body dualism, Mitwelt, Monosemy, Mood (psychology), Myth, Mythopoeic thought, Neologism, Neuroplasticity, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Ontology, Other (philosophy), Parasitism, Parody, Phenomenology (philosophy), Phenomenon, Pleasure garden, Polysemy, Procedural knowledge, Protagonist, Roland Barthes, Scientific method, Semiosis, Semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce, Semiotics of culture, Sense, Sensory nervous system, Sign (semiotics), Simulacrum, Social alienation, Social space, Sociology of space, Statue, Story structure, Subject and object (philosophy), Symbolic interactionism, Terrace garden, The Real, The Symbolic, Trichotomy (philosophy), Umberto Eco, Umwelt, Urn, Vladimir Vernadsky.