Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign. A sign is everything which can be taken as significantly substituting for something else. This something else does not necessarily have to exist or to actually be somewhere at the moment in which a sign stands in for it. Thus semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth; it cannot in fact be used 'to tell' at all. I think that the definition of a 'theory of the lie' should be taken as a pretty comprehensive program for a general semiotics.
-Umberto Eco, Theory of Semiotics, 1976
it can make you feel smart.... lol... . . .











lmao, thanks for the fav. and friend. Our chem. project kicks ass!!!!
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"Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently." Anon
hee hee i got you into them. hee hee they kick ass dont they?
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