Generative Anthropology Summer Conference 2011, May 19-21

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The Human Condition: A Commentary on Originary Signification

Any functional sign must involve the following:

 

1)  The possibility of being a lie (I borrow this from Umberto Eco’s A Theory of Semiotics).  There are better ways of putting this, as “lie” presupposes a declarative, an assertion about something in the world independent of the person [...]

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