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100 1 0 _aBiard, Joël
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245 0 0 _aThe Semiology of Port-Royal
260 _c2015.
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520 _aThis paper examines the Port Royal Logic, in comparison with medieval theories of the sign and of language. It takes up the famous chapters dedicated to signs, so as to clarify how the notions of signification and representation intersect with each other. The Port Royal Logic recuses the theory of mental language which dominated the Late Middle Ages in favour of the expressive force of the mind. The mind subordinates language to itself, in a procedure whereby language must continuously be adapted to the idea. The article demonstrates how, in this conception of the relations between thought and language, there is a strong presence of Augustinian themata which goes well beyond the standard definition of the sign. Neither a Cartesian linguistics nor a simple Cartesian theory of judgement, the philosophy of language of Port Royal is based on a real “semiological Augustinism.”
690 _aSign
690 _aLanguage
690 _aIdea
690 _aMiddle Ages
690 _aSignification
690 _aLogic
690 _aPort-Royal
690 _aRepresentation
690 _aAugustine
786 0 _nArchives de philosophie | Volume 78 | 1 | 2015-01-23 | p. 9-28 | 0003-9632
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-archives-de-philosophie-2015-1-page-9?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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