[Ads-l] Major Antedating of "Semiotics"

[Shapiro, Fred]

semiotics (OED, 2., 1880)

1835 Georg Friedrich Seiler Biblical Hermeneutics 24 (Google Books)

That branch of science which is occupied with the Doctrine of Signs is called the Knowledge of Signs (Semiotics). It consists partly of the Art of Signification, which teaches rules according to which an object is to be distinctly pointed out by appropriate signs; partly of the general art of Interpretation, or Hermeneutics, which teaches the rules by which the Signification of the Signs of our Thoughts is to be discovered.

Fred Shapiro

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