A biosemiotic approach to the question of meaning

Zygon

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 367-390

  Hoffmeyer, Jesper ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Biosemiotics; Emergence; Evolutionary interpretation; Ontological relation; Relative being; Semiotic freedom; Sign; Theory of meaning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955397546     PISSN: 05912385     EISSN: 14679744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2010.01087.x     Document Type: Article

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