Re what you say below.That's precisely what Hsrris does NOT do. He never says there is stable sign. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, May 26, 2012 12:11:44 PM Subject: "Signs" The more one looks at the writings of Roy Harris, Roland Barthes, and others, the more one concludes that for them just about everything we can observe is a "sign". If we stipulate that by a "sign" we mean an observable that occasions a notion, theirs is a defensible stance. The confusion enters when we believe there is a "the" notion for any given "sign". All a sign can occasion in me is a "meaning/notion" for ME. It's can be very different for you. When thinkers like Barthes believe they are "decoding" a sign, finding its "real" "meaning", they go badly wrong.
