Abstract

BEIVIDAS, Waldir. Discursive epistemology under construction: Immanent semiotic theory between perception and semioception. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2014, n.31, pp.139-159. ISSN 2594-0619.

Current semiotic theory takes a look at daily life interactions, in which sense is unstable and fleeting, under the coercive pressures of the subject's apprehension and the sensory limitations of his/ her body. The concept of perception takes a privileged place in semiotic reflections. Resorting to this concept of phenomenological philosophy must be considered critically, since it causes us to bring a (transcendental) "substance" in through the back door of the house of semiotics, which is epistemologically built on the concept of immanent form. The purpose of our paper is to present the concept of semioception, created on the basis of the semiotic principle of the arbitrariness of the linguistic sign, a concept that is in competition with that of perception. On a more distant horizon, we can envision the possibility of a discursive epistemology of immanent status, responsible for handling semiotic reflections.

Keywords : semioception; immanence; perception; transcendence; discursive epistemology.

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