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Language as Eigenform: Semiotics in the search of a meaning
The problem of how signs acquire their meaning is longstanding in philosophy of language of the analytical tradition (Quine, Frege, Peirce, Wittgeinstein), as well the continental one (Saussure, Hjelmslev, Jacobson, Bloomfield). At present, most scholars are inclined either to point to the priority of objects over the system of signs, or to the system over the objects. However, neither version solves the task satisfactorily. On the one hand, we believe that the language and the world are external to each other and are independent from each other; but on the other hand, we cannot construct a model of language independent from the world (what does language denote, in that case?) and the world independent from language (how is a world is possible if it is not referenced?). This situation poses a problem. The Eigenform model can help shed the light on this problem and suggests coherent solution; this model shows how it is possible to overcome the ‘dilemma of preceding’ (of language to the world or the world to language). Similar to the dilemma of the preceding of observation (observer) to the world or observation (observer) to the world, the Eigenform model shows that neither referencing nor signified precede the other, but rather inter-condition each other. Thus, language creates the world of objects but is shaped by the world in turn. Unlike similar language model developed by L. Wittgenstein, Eigenform model stipulates the principle of the world-language generation in a complex system of involved and \ or mutual interpretations. The interpreter generates a meaning in the world, but itself, thereby forming an interpretation (in particular self-interpretation).