TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edward J. Furton
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1062-2306
TI  - A Medieval Semiotic
T2  - Reference and Representation in John of St. Thomas' Theory of Signs
N2  - This work is both an analysis of one of the most important theories on signs and signification of the Middle Ages and a spirited defense of the objectivity of knowledge. The author compares the sign theory of the medieval epistemologist John of St. Thomas to that of the great Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. He finds that John of St. Thomas' theory endures as the more philosophically compelling because it describes the relationship between reference and representation in a manner that shows why thought and language must be fundamentally objective. The medieval theorist stands in opposition to the subjectivism and irrationalism associated with much of current research in semiotics.
KW  - Sign, Signification, Knowledge, Irrationalism, Middle Ages
LA  - English
ER  -