6/3/12

Ecco's 'Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language'

 I have been reading 'Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language' by Ecco recently. It is quite a good blend of linguistics, semiotics, and philosophy with history and logic ingredients too. He mentioned Leibniz' idea that God in his relationship to nothingness created the first dialectic. That is a paraphrase not very well said, perhaps another time I will quote that passage from Leibniz' book.

Sartre's tome 'Being and Nothingness' also brings the fundamental idea of Leibniz to the fore of ontology. 

Within Being it is challenging to prove the source of Being ultimately. It is equally difficult to disprove the idea of nothingness, though negations or the absence of something exists for language as well as for physics.

If one relied upon nothingness to prove the non-Creation of somethingness, or multiplied nothing times nothing to disprove something existing, the reliability would be uncertain enough to search for something better I would think.

Within a series of integers extending forever-even sentient integers if one can imagine such existing within a temporal sequence that seems to disappear in the past, the integers might want to rely upon something rather than nothing to prove that the integer series was not created by a Mathematician rather than being a self-standing automatic generator phenomenality.

Well Ecco's book is fine reading anyway.

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