Heidegger

Pete supplies:

> I was always under the impression that Saussere invented the term ’semitoic’
> for his system of sign analysis- or that is was at least modern French in
> origin.
> Here is the word ancient greek that Pierce posits as ’semiotic’- see
> attachment. Knowing that translating ancient Greek is a problematic task at
> best, under what auspices does he ‘determine’ that it corresponds to
> semiotic, a concept which I understood to be modern. Also from where has he
> pulled this word- Plato I would have as a guess- but I don’t know. Can you
> (Malcom) or anyone else who can be bothered give me some background on this.
> In saying this I know its a Heidegger list, and not a Pierce list, but
> Pierce so blatantly rips off so much of Heidegger’s thinking without the
> briefest reference. Is it merely ‘the science of signs’ or somethin akin, I
> refer here to the meaning of the attached ancient greek word (attached for
> you to peruse) I had to clummsily write it in photoshop- whats the font
> name? You know people often refer to Pierce as the ‘American’ Derrida, or
> even as a ’superior’ Derrida, but I have to say, I do not find this to be
> the case- not in the same league at all.

michael replies:

Pete, sema/sema means mark, sign, seal, signal, token, guide, indicator,
omen, etc, but also a grave, a crypt (sematoeis essa en = full of tombs) –>
sign/indicator/pointer of/to something hidden, buried, encrypted. And this
its self points to the ontological difference (as the most incongruous but
incorrigibly uniquely unique relation of something {visible} to its isness
{invisibilised by the something’s very visibility}, and thus is highly
relevant to a Heidegger list’s business…

regards

michaelP

[michaelPS: “American Derrida” strikes me as very funny. If you have a Mac,
I have a good Greek font or so.]

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