Iliad (Homer), 571
Illuminated manuscripts, 227n6, 260
Imagination, 471–472, 482, 528
Immanuel of Rome, 307
Imola, Benvenuto da, 147
“Inanis impetus” [“Antagonism that achieves nothing”] (Alciati), 193
In artem brevis R. Llulli (Agrippa), 417
Inconsistency, 19
In de divinis nominibus (Thomas Aquinas), 348
Indexes (indices), 36, 41, 200, 203, 205
Indo-European hypothesis, 440
Inference, relationship of, 195, 513, 516
Inferno (Dante Alighieri), 132, 147
Ingredientibus (Abelard), 198, 362
In Sphaerum Ioannis de Sacro Bosco (Clavius), 420
Instauratio Magna, 36–37
Institutiones grammaticae (Priscian), 244–245n14
Institutio oratoria (Quintillian), 22n
Intentionality, 199, 206, 218
Interchangeability, presumption of, 237–238
International Association for Semiotic Studies, 1
Interpretability, 20–21
Interpretance, 21
Interpretants, 50, 51, 52
Interpretation, 51, 90–91, 149, 250, 352, 536; adulterated, 491; Beatus and, 254; knowledge and, 524; moral, 30; multiple interpretations of Scripture, 257, 258; Peircean, 565; perceptual judgment and, 469; reliability of, 571; rhetorical, 433; schematism and, 486; truth-conditional semantics and, 561; use of text and, 581; visualization of Scripture and, 270–271; World-Mind experiment and, 576–577
Intuition, 313, 314, 458, 463, 465, 515, 578; creative, 324–325, 326; Croce’s theory of, 532, 538; immediacy of, 511, 513; as inner expression, 318; intellectual, 345–352; intuition-expression, 534, 535; language and, 491; perceptual judgment and, 468; schema and, 471, 477–478, 484; sign and, 543; in Thomistic epistemology, 330
In visionem Ezechielis (Richard of Saint Victor), 272–273
Irenaeus of Lyon, 256, 282n13
Irrweg labyrinth, 52–53, 53
Isagoge (Porphyry), 4, 5, 12, 96, 162
Isidore of Seville, 30–31, 111, 119, 441; etymology of, 232, 447–448; on intelligence of dogs, 185–186; on names of God, 300–301
Jackendoff, Ray, 517
Jakobson, Roman, 1, 78
James, William, 529
James of Venice, 96, 96nn2–3
Jeauneau, Edouard, 244n13
Jerome, Saint, 186, 231, 251, 254, 256
Jesus Christ, 29, 30, 40, 235; Antichrist and, 282n12, 284; Apocalypse and, 275, 279; Hoy Grail and, 227; language spoken by, 295
Jews, 191, 231–232, 283, 307, 425
Joco-seriorum naturae et artis (Schott), 39
John of Dacia, 111, 213n40
John of Garland (Johannes de Garlandia), 105, 124
John of Jandun, 115
John of Saint Thomas (John Poinsot), 321, 333, 347
John of Salisbury, 121, 123, 138, 139, 238, 356, 401
John of the Cross, 317
Johnson, Mark, 64n35
Johnston, Mark D., 389n8, 395, 397, 408n14
John the Apostle, 256, 280
John the Baptist, 260
John the Saracen, 238
Joyce, James, 67, 68, 92, 334, 343n, 439, 569
Julian the Apostate, 442
Kabbalah, 301–303, 304, 306, 308, 400; Llullism after Pico and, 422; names of, 386; Sephirot of, 400, 412
Kabbalism, 23, 283, 426; Christian, 385; Llullism compared with, 397–399; Pico della Mirandola and, 408–414
Kandinsky, Wassily, 528
Kant, Immanuel, 1, 168, 333, 347, 457–458, 484–487; empirical concepts in, 458–466; on intuition, 525; judgments of perception, 466–471; schema of the dog and, 474–478; schema of unknown object and, 478–484; on schematism, 471–474; thing-in-itself, 584
Kant and the Platypus [K & P] (Eco), 72, 508, 509, 511, 515; on immediacy of intuition, 513; interpretation and, 567; on perspectives in Peirce, 524–525; semantics and, 550, 562, 563; World-Mind experiment in, 571–585
Katz, Jerrold J., 18n12, 19
Kepler, Johannes, 62, 487, 537
Kern, Hermann, 52
Kilwardby, Robert, 127, 214n42
Kircher, Athanasius, 40, 222n50, 229n7, 386, 393–394, 394n10, 405n12, 426, 444
Knowledge, 22, 27, 38, 86, 119, 151, 456; analogy and, 159, 163, 167, 168; animal symbolism and, 193; ars excerpendi and, 83; branches of, 48; chain of, 33; conceptual, 536; continuity of, 245; encyclopedias of, 436–437; global, 50; historical, 235, 241; inferential, 513, 524; innate knowledge of animals, 175; intellectual intuition and, 350–351; interpretation and, 28–29; latency of, 87–88; linguistic, 21, 305, 463; metaphor as instrument of, 95, 117; mnemonic tradition and, 261; mystical, 334; open-ended conception of, 55; organization of, 26, 34; perfectibility of, 421; poetic, 141, 318, 320, 324, 326; representation of, 3; reunification of, 35; sense perception and, 466, 467, 468; specialized, 72, 87; Thomistic theory of, 333; transcendentalization of, 487; transmission of, 24
Koch, Josef, 311n2
Komensky, Jan Amos, 35n23
Kovach, Francis, 341
Kunstliteratur, Die (Magnino), 340
Kripke, Saul, 550
Kuhn, Helmut, 341
Labyrinths, 36–37, 48, 68; as semantic networks, 57; types of, 52–55, 53, 54; vertigo of, 74–78, 88, 93, 94
Lactantius, 256
Lakoff, George, 64n35
Lalande, André, 347
Lamb, Sidney M., 553
Lambert, Johann Heinrich, 459n2
Lambert of Auxerre, 206, 208n33
Lambertini, Roberto, 171–172n, 343n 373–374
Lamennais, Hughes-Felicité-Robert de, 441
Landes, Richard, 280n11
Language, 31, 32, 69, 70, 158, 466; of animals, 181, 220–221; artificial and computerized, 1, 422–423, 433; borrowing and, 452–453; continuum of content and, 582–583; experience in relation to, 424–425; hieroglyphic vs. symbolic, 538; Kabbalah and, 303; man as rational animal and, 202; matrix languages, 440; penury of names and, 421; perfect language, 290, 297–298, 426, 449; philosophic, 426, 427–439, 446, 449; philosophy of language, 2, 3, 483, 531; primigenial, 440, 441; semiosis and, 489, 493–495; speech acts in Genesis, 286–298; “superlinguistic” force in, 450; Tower of Babel and, 290, 294, 295, 299, 305; translated documents, 229–230; universal, 1, 44, 425; vernacular language, 291–293, 294, 297–298; visual signs and, 505; voces of animals and, 125n43, 216. See also Natural language
Langue, Saussurean, 290, 293, 549, 556
Lapidaries, 30, 136, 143
“Latency” of information, 73
Latin language, 22, 23, 102, 107, 230, 359, 454; corruptions of medieval Latin, 253; formation of compound words in, 446–447; grammar of, 291, 296, 432; as international language, 436; Latin Aristotle, 96–97; mathematical combinations from alphabetic letters, 420–421; medieval philology and, 232; mnemonic tradition, 261; popular semiosis and, 494–495; Vulgate text in, 286
Latratus canis [“On Animal Language”] (Eco, Lambertini, Marmo, Tabarroni), 171–172n, 212, 221n49
Lavinheta, Bernardus de, 388n7
Law, 31, 404
Leclerc, Henri, 343n32
Lector in fabula [The Role of the Reader] (Eco), 570
Leech, Geoffrey, 354
Legitimism, French, 441
Le Goff, Jacques, 242, 246n15, 307
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 37, 40n26, 46–47, 49, 55, 62, 88, 226, 400; on classification of knowledge, 437; latency of knowledge and, 88; perfectibility of knowledge and, 422; relation of language to experience and, 425
Lemay, Richard, 115
Lemoine, Michel, 339n25, 343n32
Leonardo da Vinci, 241, 517, 518, 537
Letter Nine (Pseudo-Dionysius), 152, 154, 156
Lewis, David K., 555
Lewis, W. J., 111n16, 186n13
Lexicography, 238, 549, 550, 553, 558–559
Libation Bearers (Aeschylus), 103