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Mathematics and semiotics share many intellectual features and interests, from the study of how representations stand for specifi c kinds of referents to philosophical considerations of how these interrelate with reality. Nonetheless, rarely have in-depth studies of this intrinsic relation between the two been undertaken, with a few notable exceptions (as will be discussed in this book). Especially relevant to the study of the nature of mathematics is the concept of model – a term and notion that is used widely in both disciplines. However, to the best of our knowledge the theory of models in semiotics, known as Modeling Systems Theory, has rarely, if ever, been applied to the study of mathematical modeling.
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That semiotics is a multifaceted endeavor is a known fact. Putting its pieces together, however, has been a hard task to address, for the distinctive perspective of semiotics is as particular as it is fragmented. Yet, the big picture of the semiotic approach is held together both institutionally and intentionally in Estonia by the educational structures that have allowed semiotics to thrive as its own field. And this comes as a result of the understanding that it deserves constitution as a fi eld of its own.
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The influence of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) on various disciplines has been widespread in the century since his death – but erratic. His legacy in American pragmatic philosophy began early, during his lifetime; his legacy in what he called semeiotic began later, in the decade before and the decade after his death; still later came a significant impact on mathematical logic and the development of digital computers and artifi cial intelligence, which he anticipated by speculating that logic/semeiotic (especially the generation of hypotheses) could be automated. What has made his thought especially fruitful for research and development in very recent industrial applications of intelligent systems is that his pragmatistic semeiotic is grounded in the “fuzzy” notion of clustering items by rough similarity rather than maintaining rigid category boundaries.
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Still, the possibility of an instinct-experience-habit triad is not exactly alien to Peircean thought: add to the instinct-experience-form triad the passage from the late essay “A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God” (CP 6.454), where “An ‘Experience’ is a brutally produced conscious eff ect that contributes to a habit,” and the 1902 “Minute Logic,” where he defines an “instinct” as an “an inherited habit” (CP 2.170), thus bending the triad around into a cycle.
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All of the contributors to this volume were extraordinarily generous, not only in producing such high quality contributions under the constraints of everincreasingly limited word counts and deadlines, but also in peer reading and responding to each other’s work, and in off ering their constant support for the successful realization of this project. The resulting volume is truly a labour of love, and I thank each and every one of you for all that you have done to make it so.
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The 2018 summer issue of Interlitteraria is the second volume of the proceedings of the conference “Comparative Literature, World Literature and Ethical Literary Criticism” held in Tartu in October 2016. Papers gathered in this volume are mostly case studies applying the specific framework of Ethical Literary Criticism as defined by Nie Zhenzhao to literary works or considering them from a broader ethical perspective.
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In October 2017, members and guests of the Estonian Association of Comparative Literature gathered in Tartu for the conference Influence and Originality in Literary Creation, twelfth edition in the series of international conferences organized by the ECLA. About a half of the speakers represented Central and Eastern European countries: Lithuania, Russia, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Latvia. The conference solidified ECLA’s traditional cooperation network, providing an opportunity to develop cooperation with long-time research partners and welcome new ones.
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