The East Asian Semiotic Seminar

October 27-29 1992- Wuhan, China

The East Asian Semiotic Seminar was held at Hubei University, the host being Li Xian Kun of the Department of Political Science of this University. The sponsors were the Chinese Association of Logic and the Japanase Association for Semiotic Studies.

The members of the Organizing Committee were as follows:

Zhao Jing Zhao, Vice-President, Hubei University; Li Xian Kun, Department of Political Science, Hubei University; Hyakudai Sakamoto, Aoyama University, Tokyo; Ni Ding Fu, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Seiences (Vice-President, Secretary-General, Chinese Association of Logic); Wang Wen Qing, Chairman, Department of Political Science, Hubei University; Wang Wei Xian, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hangzhdu University (Member of the Board, Chinese Association of Logic); Chen Zong Ming, Zhe Jiang College of Administrative Science (Member of the Board, Chinese Association of Logic)

The invited speakers were: Jerzy Pelg, Hyakudai Sakamoto, Gerard Deledalle and Elisabeth Walther-Bense (the latter unfortunately detained by prior commiti'nents in Stuttgart). The working languages of the Seminar were Chinese, Japanase and English. Trans­lation and interpetation from and into english were expertly assured by Li Xiang Kun, also of Hubei University, and in Beijing and Wuhan, Zhang Dun Min (Secretary on Foreign Affairs, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), effi­ciently organised the stay of the foreign visitors. The general theme of the Seminar was: "The Meaning of the Culture of the Chinese Characters", but many other related semiotic topics were also examined in the papers read.

The subjects of the invited lectures were:

"Sign and lnference" (Jerzy Pelg) "The Possibility of East Asian Semiotics" (Hyakudai Sakamoto) "Two Trends in Raading Signs: Semiotics and Semiology" (Gerard Deledalle)

Other topics treated were:

"Chinese Characters as seen by a Japanase Philosopher" (Takashi Fujimoto) "Transpersonal Semiosis - a Consideration on the Basis of C. S. Peirce's Firstness" (Yoichi Takahashi) "Gonsun Long - An Excellent Semiotician in Ancient China" (Li Xian Kun) "Yan Fu's Dedication to the Semiotic" (Ni Ding Fu) "A Survey of Chinese Semiotics" (Chen Zong Ming) "Analyzing Chinese Charakters by Peirce's Classification of Signs" (Xu Song Lie) "Reflections on some Modes of Non-verbal Communication" (Junzo Kawada) "The Transposition of Signs" (Janice Deledalle-Rhodes

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"On Chinese Characters and their Reforms" (Wang Oe Chun) "Semantics in the Commentary on Shuo Wen Jie Zi" (Wang Wei Xian) "The Logical Function of Chinese Characters" (Li Jian Zhao) "The Logic of Termsand Propositions" (Zhang Qing Yu) "The Cultural Characteristics of the Mienh Language Symbols" (Huan Han Jiang, Lin Bao Shen, Xiao Li Ping) "Verbal Signs, Meaning and Empirical Knowledge" (Zhu Zhi Fang) "The Abstract of the Buddhist Logic" (Shen Jia Ying) "Translation and Postmodernity" (Hiroshi Yoshioka) "A New View about 'Yan' (parole), 'Yi' (Meaning) and 'Xiang' (Phenomenon)' (Liu Zong Tang) "Pictographs as the Primitive Symbols of the Chinese Character System" (Yuan Yu Cheng) "On the Fuzziness of Communicative Symbols" (Ding Huan) "An Enquiry into the Ancient Theory of Art Sign Structure" (Chen Bo) "On the Origin of the Signs of Guayao and the Meaning Planes of Zhouyi (The Book of Change)" (Chen Dao Oe) "Semantics of the Mohist Canon" (Sun Xue Jun) "Semantics and Pragmatics in Mozi on Argumentation" (Zhao Ping) "On the Comparative Study of Significs of the Characters in the Chinese and Japanase Languages" (Tang Lei) "The Semiotic Significance of Xun Kuang's Theory on Correcting Names" (Xu Ai Qiong) "A Preliminary Exploration of 'Shuo Wen Jie Zi' from the Viewpoint of Semiotics" (Gao Le Tian) · "On the Anim.ation of Symbols of Artistic Language" (Sheng Xin Hua) "Characteristics of the Chinese Character from the View-point of Semiotics" (Fan Ming Ya) "The Symbolical Field and its Significance" (Yang Su) "On the Metaphorical Features of the Symbols of Chinese Characters" (qu Mai Sheng)

This Seminar being the first international meeting of the kind organized in China, there was naturally much discussion about the future of semiotics in ' East Asia, and the possibilities of wider international cooperation. ln the course of meetings, formal and informal, before and after the Seminar, and during the cultural visits kindly organized by our Chinese hosts, there was ample time for these discussions, and many occasions for the foreign participants to appreciate fully one of the most important aspects of the Seminar, destined, in Li Xian Kun's words "to deepen the understanding and academic friendship among the scholars from different countries".

Janice Deledalle-Rhodes

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Wir danken Herrn Hans Lense, Laupheim, für die großzügige Unterstützung, die er uns seit Jahren gewährt. Herausgeberin und Redaktion

Inhalt

Hanna Buczynska-Garewicz

Klaus Oehler

Helmut Kreuzer

Karl Gfesser

Thomas Gil

Altred Toth

Cornelie Leopold

Hariss Kidwaii

Karl Herrmann

Rationalism of the Stuttgart School ·

Der Paircesehe Universalienrealismus

Medienphilologie und Fernsehgeschichte

Geltung und Genese der Kategorien bei lmmanuel Kant und Ch. S. Peirce

Das Schicksal der Zeichen im Zeitalter der' Hypertelie Semiotik logischer und metalogischer

Paradoxien

Zum Verhältnis von "reiner" und

"angewandter Geometrie"

Mathematische Zeichensysteme

Betrachtung zur Birkhoffschen Formel

3

9

13

25

45

55

77

91

97

Robert M. Strozier, J. Derridas Dekonstrukion des linguistischen 1 03 Strukturalismus, F. de Saussures. (Thomas Gil)

8. Holecek und L. von Mengden [Hg.], Zufall als Prinzip: Spie/weft, 105 Methode und System in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts. (Herbert Heyer)

Arnold Oberschelp, Logik für Philosophen. ( Altred Toth) 109

Karl Herrmann, Eine Verarbeitung eines Textes von Max Bense. 111

Janice Deledalle-Rhodes, The East Asian Semiotic Seminar. 119

Karl Gfesser, Internationales Symposium Interface II 121