Terms loaded with informational connotations are often employed to refer to genes and their dynamics...
Keywords: gene, Information, process philosophy, semiosis, biosemiotics, C. S. Peirce
06/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterWe investigate how C. S. Peirce's theory of metaphor can provide us with an insight into concept formation...
Keywords: metaphor, C. S. Peirce, esthetics, concept formation
08/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterIn his 1903 Syllabus, Charles S. Peirce makes a distinction between icons and iconic signs, or hypoicons, and briefly introduces a division of the latter into images, diagrams, and metaphors...
Keywords: Hypoicons, classification of signs, semiotics, C. S. Peirce, pictograms, information design
09/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter