Essay(s) by Herman Parret, Leo Apostel, Paul Gochet, Maurice Van Overbeke, Oswald Ducrot, Liliane Tasmowski-De Ryck, Norbert Dittmar et Wolfgang Wildgen
The historical roots of the propositional versus the imagistic view on meaning in perception and language can be found in Aristotle’s Categories and in the medieval and Renaissance models for mnemonic networks of sign systems (Lullus, Bruno). The architecture of sensibility and meaning has been… read more
Various features of the space of semantic conceptualization, and specifically position, obstacles, path and motion, are discussed in the essay. These characteristics of conceptual space are applied to the dynamics of field semantics on the basis of concepts from Gestalt theory. Wildgen’s main… read more