Noun
Semeiology.
Same as Semeiotics.
Source: Webster's dictionarySemiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all. Umberto Eco
Every specific semiotics (as every science) is concerned with general epistemological problems. Umberto Eco
A general semiotics transforms, for the very fact of its theoretical claim, its own object. Umberto Eco
Not every specific semiotics can claim to be like a natural science. In fact, every specific semiotics is at most a human science, and everybody knows how controversial such a notion still is. Umberto Eco
A general semiotics studies the whole of the human signifying activity - languages - and languages are what constitutes human beings as such, that is, as semiotic animals. It studies and describes languages through languages. Umberto Eco
President Trump is too set in his ways and independent-minded to imbibe the layers of debased semiotics with which government lawyers routinely rape reality. Ilana Mercer