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The present paper is concerned with the concept of sign in a particular interpretation. (…) In order to avoid misunderstanding we shall call signs, in this particular interpretation, ‘semantic entities’ (…).
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d, Retain that dear perfection which he owes, Without that title.
W. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II
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That other object need not necessarily be a designatum of a given semantic entity. It may also be a designatum of a semantic entity accompanying the entity in question.
Logische Untersuchungen, Vol. II, p. 43.
The linguistic examples in this paragraph have been modified to comply with the English system of word formation while illustrating the author’s points. (Tr.)
In English, the use of the indefinite article marks a grammatical difference which is absent in Polish, where there are no articles. (Tr.)
I interpret an ‘indication’ more or less as an analogue of Husserl’s ‘Anzeige’. (Cf. Logische Untersuchungen, Vol. II, Chap. 8, p. 25). An indication is an object whose appearance informs us about the existence or properties of another object. (The more or less standard English term is Peirce’s ‘indexical sign’, which has not been used here, so as not to convey the erroneous impression that Ossowski was directly influenced by Peirce. — Tr.)
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Ossowski, S. (1979). An Analysis of the Concept of Sign. In: Pelc, J. (eds) Semiotics in Poland 1984–1969. Synthese Library, vol 119. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9777-6_19
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