[MD] The Edge 2006 Annual Question

[Scott Roberts]

SA,

SA said:
>From what I gather, Scott believes, knows, and/or says
that (whatever signifying word you want to use)
concepts are strictly creations of the human mind and
this is called nominalism.  Scott, What does semiosis
mean?  Also, Scott does not believe their is an
ultimate source as Ham does.

Scott:
No. I reject nominalism according to that definition. I hold that concepts 
are just as much nonhuman as human.

Semiotics is the study of signs and signification, which is to say, of ways 
that things mean other things. When I say "semiosis is ubiquitous", I am 
claiming that all events, not just human events, or those of more complex 
animals, are acts of signification.

- Scott