Philosophical Semiotics: The Coming into Being of the World of Meaning

Introduction: Theory of Meaning, Semiotic Phenomenology, Philosophical Semiotics
Contents
Part I The World of Meaning
1 The Plurality and Complexity of the World of Meaning
	1 The Plurality of the World
	2 The Complexity of the World
	3 The Shared World of Meaning
2 The World of Things and the Practical World of Meaning: Recognition, Understanding, and Reforming to Achieve Effects
	1 The Relationship Between the World of Things and the World of Meaning
	2 Recognition and Distinction
	3 Understanding, Evaluation, and Reforming to Achieve Effects
	4 The Transformation of the World in Practice
3 The World of Mind: Category and Planning
	1 The World of Meaning and Fantasy
	2 Category
	3 Planning and the Crossing in the World of Meaning
4 The Place of Play and Art in the World of Meaning
	1 The Common Features of Plays and Sports: Opaqueness and Uselessness
	2 Secondary Practicality
	3 The “Four Master Tropes” of Art and Play
Part II The Production of Meaning
5 The Meaning of The Meaning of Meaning
	1 The Story of The Meaning of Meaning
	2 The Definition of Meaning
	3 Phenomenology and Meaning
	4 Interpretation and Meaning
	5 An Attempt of Conclusion
6 Formal Intuition
	1 What is Formal Intuition?
	2 Is the Intentional Object the Thing or the Sign?
	3 Formal Reduction
7 The Heterogeneity of the Object of Meaning
	1 Intentionality Making the Heterogeneity of the Object
	2 The “Epoche” and the Noise
	3 The Activation of Zones
	4 Psychologism and Anti-psychologism
8 Apperception and Appresentation: Minimum Formal Integrity of Meaning
	1 From Presentation to Appresentation
	2 Transcendental Apperception, Empirical Apperception
	3 Four Kinds of Appresentations
	4 Appresentation as Semiosis
9 Indexicality is the Firstness in Semiotics
	1 The Riddle of the Index
	2 The History of the Genesis of the Index
	3 The Indexicals in Language
	4 Indexicality and Self-consciousness
	5 Is Indexicality the Secondness?