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Contents

Foreword to the Volume as a Whole vii

Part I: What Objective Reality Is and How It Is Possible

Terminological Prenote 3

Praeludium Primum, or The Key Dilemma 8

Preamble on Objectivity 9

Chapter 1. The Problem of Objectivity 14

Chapter 2. Root of the Semiotic Resolution of the Problem of

Objectivity 17

Chapter 3. Objectivity as a Branch on the Tree of Relations 38

Chapter 4. The First Appearance of Objectivity in Its Difference fromThings 54

Chapter 5. The Source in Subjectivity of Relations of Apprehension 69

Chapter 6. The Sign Arbitrariness or Historicity? 84

Chapter 7. The Social Construction of Reality 110

Part II: Background to the Text

Chapter 8. What Difference Does It Make What a Sign Is? 123

Chapter 9. Why Intersubjectivity Is Not Enough 143

Chapter 10. The Amazing History of Sign 165

References, Historically Layered 185

Index 205

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List of Illustrations and Diagrams

Illustration 1. Traditional Presentation of Aristotles Categories 20

Illustration 2. The Traditional Presentation Inverted 21

Illustration 3. The Traditional Presentation Remedied 30

Illustration 4. Latin Version of Remedial Presentation 30

Illustration 5. English Version of Remedied Scheme 30

Illustration 6. A Sop to Cerberus for Traditionalists 33

Illustration 7. Similarity between Two Things 36

Illustration 8. Intrinsic Dependency of Relation upon Subjectivity asFundament 51

Diagram 1. The Modern View of Relation as Stabilized by Ockham

(1349): Intersubjectivity Excluded from the Notion of Categorial

Being as Ens Reale 25

Diagram 2. AfterAristotle (322bc): the Notion of Categorial

Being or Ens Reale 29

Diagram 3. Relation afterAquinas (1274): How Categorial Being

Provides through Relation the Basis for There BeingMind-Dependent Being 42

Diagram 4. AfterPoinsot (1644): Demonstration of Objectivity as

Consequent upon Uniqueness of Relation as Mode of Ens Reale 53

Diagram 5. Aristotles notion of to n (ens) as transmitted

through Boethius to the Latin Age 55

Diagram 6. Preliminary Sketch of Objective Being 83

Diagram 7. AfterOckham (1349): Relation Excluded from the

Notion of Categorial Being as Ens Reale 96Diagram 8. How Esse Objectivum Exists as Terminating Ontological

Sign-Relations 117

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What Objective Reality Is and How It IsPossible

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