Veritas in Dictum. The Meaning of the Absolute and its Symbolic Expression

Artículo

Resumen *

As we follow and expand Umberto Eco?s first reading of Thomas Aquinas, we can notice a prehistory of contemporary semiotics and very particularly of the ?opening? theory. Thomas, with his theoretical turn, begins a reconsideration of the theory of significance and meaning, which will be developed in the subsequent centuries. Faced with the affirmation of the existence of an only truth and an only accessible way, he implicitly affirms there may be limitless readings of reality. This racconto of Thomas Aquinas? theory of significance also includes all the issues discussed in the opening theory: from the truth of language or the relation between language and truth, to the gnoseologic, logic relation between language and reality, and even a pragmatic justification of art. In short, the concept of ?opening? is a ripe fruit of western modernity?s textual theory; nearly one of the inevitable conclusions of a secular discussion on the semantic, cognitional text validity, on the pragmatic effectiveness in the implied story and on the limits of explicitness of its undecidable assumptions. Furthermore, it implies the possibility conditions of a subject theory within a potential unified social theory in a signal code Información suministrada por el agente en SIGEVA