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The theory of signs. |
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The distinction between natural and conventional signs. |
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The intentions of the mind, ideas and images as natural signs. |
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The things of nature functioning symbolically, the book of nature. |
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The conventional notations of human language, man's need for words. |
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The invention and use of nonverbal symbols, money, titles, seals, ceremonies, courtesies. |
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Natural signs as the source of meaning in conventional signs, thought as the medium through which words signify things. |
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The modes of signification. |
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The first and second imposition of words, names signifying things and names signifying names. |
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The first and second intention of names, words signifying things and words signifying ideas. |
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Intrinsic and extrinsic denominations, the naming of things according to their natures or by reference to their relations. |
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Proper and common names. |
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Abstract and concrete names. |
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The patterns of meaning in human discourse. |
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Verbal ambiguity, indefiniteness or multiplicity of meaning. |
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The distinction between univocal and equivocal speech. |
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The types of equivocation. |
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The same word used literally and figuratively, metaphors derived from analogies or proportions and from other kinds of similitude. |
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The same word used with varying degrees of generality and specificity, the broad and narrow meaning of a word. |
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The same word used to signify an attribute and its cause or effect. |
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The significance of names predicated of heterogeneous things, the analogical as inter-mediate between the univocal and the equivocal. |
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The determination of meaning in science, philosophy, and poetry . |
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The relation between univocal meaning and definition. |
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The dependence of demonstration on univocal terms, formal fallacies due to equivocation. |
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The nature and utility of semantic analysis, the rectification of ambiguity, the clarification and precision of meanings. |
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The use of symbols, metaphors, and myths in science, philosophy, and poetry. |
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The use of signs in reasoning, necessary and probable signs. |
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the use of mathematical symbols. |
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the interpretation of symptoms in medicine. |
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Symbolism in theology and religion. |
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Natural things as signs of divinity. |
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Supernatural signs, omens, portents, visitations, dreams, miracles. |
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The symbolism of the sacraments and of sacramental or ritualistic acts. |
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The symbolism of images and numbers in theology. |
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The interpretation of the word of God. |
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The names of God, the use of words to signify the divine nature. |
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Symbolism in psychological analysis. |
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The symbolism of dreams, their latent and manifest content. |
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The symbolism of apparently normal acts, forgetting, verbal slips, errors. |
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The symbolism of anxieties, obsessions, and other neurotic manifestations. |
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