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Faces Face to Face

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Peirce shows how he presupposes that a 'most general science of semeiotic' is entirely a miatter of culture. Semiotics unfolds even beyond the debate on specific differences between nature and culture. That insight leads not only to linguistic but also to other expressive phenomena, among which the human body. Faces are perhaps the most outstanding bodily carriers of signs and expressions, so that Peirce's analyses of Thirdness relate to the human face not as a natural, but as a cultural datum, in particular an artifice. The cases in this chapter show how the human face is an artifice and how realities can appear to be fictitious within patterns of semiotic nature. Any sign can thus be a correlative to a fictitious world.

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Notes

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    “Cotary” is derived form Horace: “ergo fungar vice cotis”, “I will thus perform the function of a whetstone”, so that the sharpest conclusion can be drawn on Pragmatism.

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    Notice a slightly different meaning of the word ‘fiction’ in English, and in particular in English legal language, with conclusions like: a fiction is that “the law promises what it cannot give” or: how layman and lawyer understand ‘offer’ and ‘acceptance’ differently.

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Broekman, J.M. (2011). Faces Face to Face. In: Broekman, J.M., Mootz, F.J. (eds) The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1341-3_2

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