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PhilGoetz comments on Is semiotics bullshit? - Less Wrong Discussion

13 Post author: PhilGoetz 25 August 2015 02:09PM

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Comment author: FrameBenignly 26 August 2015 01:55:42AM 0 points [-]

Okay, so then semiotics is mostly a set of proofs I take it. What, then, are the major assumptions underlying those proofs and which are the most important proofs built on those assumptions?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 28 August 2015 09:11:03PM 0 points [-]

Semiotics seems to be the idea that everything should be analyzed in terms of its communicative function.