Chapter 8: Prospect: A New Beginning for the Sciences
Chapter 8: Prospect: A New Beginning for the Sciences

Summary/Abstract: Let us end this time not on an historical note, but on a prophetic one. Let us try to say something definite about the future. We saw in Chapter 5 that semiotics provides a matrix or framework for all the sciences, and we saw in Chapter 7 how, in retrospect, we must now rectify the principal names used in discussing today the doctrine of signs. But what about the prospect? What may we expect to achieve by such rectification and by the explicit development of such a matrix? I think nothing less than a new beginning for the “sciences” both natural and social, that is to say, for our understanding of human knowledge in its entire compass. Taking account of all that has been said to this point, both theoretical and historical, let me try to provide in outline, at least, a prospective synthesis of an overall direction indicated for the further development of semiotic consciousness.

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