...should be approached. The Categories, On Interpretation, and Topics share the definition of words as "symbols or signs of affections or impressions of...soul; written words are the signs of words spoken. There are thoughts in our minds [en te psuche noema] unaccompanied by truth or falsity, and others...

...seconded in our own time by de Saussure and Bloomfield. Aristotle wrote in De interpretatione (1.4-6): "Words spoken are symbols or signs of affections or...soul; written words are the signs of words spoken" (b. 384 BC, 1938, p. 115). Saussure (1916/1983) attacked as the "tyranny of writing" the fact that...

...forthcoming. In the first chapter of his On Interpretation, Aristotle makes his point in a most lapidary way: Words spoken are symbols or signs of affections or...impressions of the soul; written words are the signs of the words spoken. As writing, so also is speech not the same for all races of men. But the mental affections...

...He set the tone of the next two and a half millennia by treating words as signs representing ideas: Words spoken are symbols or signs of affections or...themselves, of which these words are primarily signs [semeia] , are the same for the whole of mankind, as are also the objects of which those affections...

...Aristotle himself: Words spoken are symbols or signs (sumbola) of affections or impressions (pathematon) in the soul; written words are the signs of words spoken....As writing, so also is speech not the same for all peoples. But the mental affections themselves, of which these words are primarily signs, are the same...

...Hermogenes and Cratylus) and, most influentially, Aristotle, who writes (De inteipretatioue 16al ): 'Words spoken are symbols or signs of affections or...soul; written words are the signs of words spoken' (quoted by De Mauro, 1ntmduzione alla semantica, pp. 38-47). Harris derives the term nomenclaturism...

...Words spoken are symbols [or signs] of affections in the soul [mental impressions or experiences]; written words are the signs of words spoken. As writing,...not the same for all races of men. But the mental impressions themselves, of which these words are primarily signs, are the same for the whole of mankind,...

...Kommentatoren des Talmud feststellen). 57 Weitgehend wörtliches Zitat aus des Aristoteles Dt ¡nterprtlalimtf. „Words spoken are symbols or signs of affections...soul; written words are the signs of words spoken" (ËC5TI UÈV OW TO ev TÎJ <pu)vfj TOv ev rfi v|njxfi naoimaruv auußoXa, Kai ta ypa<poneva TÛV èv...

...of De interpretatione Aristotle had explained how words bridge on to the world by means of the mind: Words spoken are symbols or signs of affections or...spoken. As writing, so also is speech not the same for 7' Wilson 1553, fos. iV; 3ir— 34V. See Jardine (1988, p. 197) on the humanist introduction of 'ad...

...relies in the opening paragraph of On Interpretation: Words spoken are symbols or signs of affectations of the soul; written words are the signs of words...writing, so also is speech not the same for all races and men. But the mental affections themselves, of which these words are primarily signs, are the same...