Conclusion

Abstract

From a semiotic standpoint, there are certain things to consider when reflecting on the relationship between sign and representation. Intrinsically, the subject is that of cognition, the individual or agent, and the social, the communal (which ultimately implicates the nature of knowledge), and the individual intuition versus social. The question “What is the relation of perception with the externally manifested object of immediate perception?” has been the central one around which the discussion revolved. The discursive approach has been in the form of a diachronic integration of creation myths with worldviews that have been shown as having been evolved to sustain and give meaning to life as defined by the same worldview. Whether we lay in the bed as we have made it or we exist in a web of meaning that we have spun, à la Geertz, existence is local, so also are meaning and significance.