Philosophy of the Sign

Download or read book Philosophy of the Sign written by Josef Simon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Simon wields Ockham's razor like a scythe to argue historically and systematically for a coherent philosophy of the sign as sign with an unprecedented minimum of ontological and semantical commitments. Deconstructing Plato, Frege, and Husserl, he accounts for signs without positing the existence either of meanings which they express or of things to which they refer. Indeed, he shows that one cannot understand anything that is not a sign, so that one never gets to meanings without signs or things beyond signs.