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Mostly just jabber and daubings, I say, because while many of the visual figurae of various languages have their roots in pictograms, in English these figurae can now safely be described as arbitrary.
Notes on Notes Hal Duncan 2009
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Mostly just jabber and daubings, I say, because while many of the visual figurae of various languages have their roots in pictograms, in English these figurae can now safely be described as arbitrary.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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The fundamental components of any literary articulation — as a babbling in sound or a squiggling in ink — are phonemes or graphemes, verbal or visual figurae.
Notes on Notes Hal Duncan 2009
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The fundamental components of any literary articulation — as a babbling in sound or a squiggling in ink — are phonemes or graphemes, verbal or visual figurae.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Note 23: Jacques-Fabien Gautier, [Photophysis chroagenesis]: de optice errores Isaaci Newtonis ... demonstrans: ad illustrandas experientias sex figurae geometrices, simul & prismatum construendorum modus novus hîc accedunt ...
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In each case, Kant tells us, the argument is guilty of the fallacy of sophisma figurae dictionis, or the fallacy of equivocation/ambiguous middle.
Kant's Critique of Metaphysics Grier, Michelle 2007
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Scholars have held that the historicity of the figurae radically differentiates them from allegorical emblems, such as the anchor of faith.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANGUS FLETCHER 1968
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_Fast_ I 133-34 (Janus speaking) 'uis mea narrata est. causam nunc disce figurae:/iam tamen hanc _aliqua_ tu quoque _parte_ uides'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Archaeological researches demonstrate this from pictures found in the catacombs, and Pope St. Zephyrinus (A.D. 201-219) calls the altar-bread "coronam sive oblatam sphericae figurae".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Thus the conclusion is here arrived at by a Sophisma figurae dictionis.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764
john commented on the word figurae
"Figurae (singular, figura) are the non-signifying constituents of signifiers (signs). For example, letters of the alphabet are the figurae that comprise a written word (signifier). In the semiotic language of Louis Hjelmslev, the coiner of this term, figurae serve only to distinguish elements (e.g. words) of the expression plane from each other, independently from the content plane."
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February 16, 2008
sionnach commented on the word figurae
If my name were Hjelmslev, I'd think twice before coining any new terms. Physician, Hjeal thyslev!
February 16, 2008