Lexicon of Arguments

 

AU Cas 4
Definition mark/Luhmann: difference of signifier and signified. - Not "the designated"!
Character: a form with two sides: one always uses the inner side of the form. > G. Spencer-Brown 1969⁽¹⁾.


1. Spencer-Brown, George (1969). Laws of Form. London: Allen & Unwin.
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AU Cass 12
Character/world/ontology/Saussure/Luhmann: signs and signified are both linguistically internal. One could not have words, if one does not mean something with them.
>Words, >Language/Luhmann, >Communication/Luhmann, >Information/Luhmann.
On the other hand: you can make any decisions without anything getting doubled.
The sign means what it means in use, so the meaning of apple, is not the apple itself. - That is ambiguous. Sense of the apple or speaker's intention?
>Sense/Luhmann, >Speaker intention, >Speaker meaning.
AU Cass 12
Sign/re-entry/Luhmann: Re-entry: the distinction between signifier and signified as a distinction is the sign. - The sign is the unity of distinction. - The signifier is not the sign.
This corresponds with a 2nd order observation.
>Observation/operation/Luhmann, >Blind spot.
I designate characters. - I designate my distinction - blind spot: the user of the sign cannot really use the unit as a unit. - For this he would need the concept of the sign.