indications for a metatheoretic foundation of meaning in biosemiotics. some philosophical remarks as an introduction to the gatherings in biosemiotic 6, salzburg, austria, 5-9 july 2006

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Abstract
Biosemiotics is the study of meaning in living systems; it is about context dependent communication and signification on all levels of biological organization. Thereby, biosemiotics perceives the concept of meaning as an essential, non-reducible characteristic of the living world; without it, the latter cannot be understood in a reasonable way. But this position is in conflict with the standard classical stance of natural science (though, of course, not with the one of social sciences). Accord-ing to this perspective, the idea of meaning can only be consid-ered as a kind of metaphorical use of language (due to our cognitive inability in terms of a complete reduction). This article gives some indications, how biosemiotics can defend and justify its position form a metatheoretic and philosophic point of view. Though, meaning is so evident and, hence, a basically real fact in living systems, we nevertheless need a sound scientific foundation for its argumentation.
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Authors Matthias Schafranek
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Journal molecular informatics
Year 2008
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Keywords
communication meaning evolutionary novelty races classes mass mediacommunities

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