Introduction. How to Move in the World of Signs

PART I: THEORETICAL SEMIOTICS

A. Boguslawski

Conditionals and Egocentric Mental Predicates

W. Buszkowski

On Families of Languages Generated by Categorial Grammar

K.G. Havas

Changing the World — Changing the Meaning. On the Meanings of the "Principle of Non-Contradiction"

H. Hiz

On Translation

S. Marcus

Imprecision, Between Variety and Uniformity: The Conjugate Pairs

J. Peregrin and P. Sgall

Meaning and "Propositional Attitudes"

O.A. Wojtasiewicz

Some Applications of Metric Space in Theoretical Linguistic

PART II: METHODOLOGY

E. Agazzi

Rationality and Certitude

I. Bellert

Human Reasoning and Artificial Intelligence. When Are Computers Dumb in Simulating Human Reasoning?

T. Bigaj

Analyticity and Existence in Mathematics

G.B. Keene

Taking up the Logical Slack in Natural Languages

A. Kertész

Interdisciplinarity and the Myth of Exactness

J. Srzednicki

Norm as the Basis of Form

J.S. Stepanov

"Cause" in the Light of Semiotics

J.A. Wojciechowski

The Development of Knowledge as a Moral Problem

PART III: HISTORY OF SEMIOTICS

E. Albrecht

Philosophy of Language, Logic and Semiotics

G. Deledalle

A Philosopher's reply to Questions Concerning Peirce's Theory of Signs

J. Deledalle-Rhodes

The Transposition of Linguistic Sign in Peirce's Contributions to "The Nation"

R.E. Innis

From Feeling to Mind: A Note on Langer's Notion of Symbolic Projection

R. Kevelson

Peirce's Semiotics as Complex Inquiry: Conflicting Methods

J. Kopania

The Cartesian Alternative of Philosophical Thinking

Xiankun Li

Why Gonsung Long (Kungsun Lung) Said "White Horse Is Not Horse"

L. Melazzo

A Report on an Ancient Discussion

Ding-fu Ni

Semantic Thoughts of J. Stuart Mill and Chinese Characters

I. Portis-Winner

Lotman's Semiosphere: Some Comments

J. Réthoré

Another Close Look at the Interpretant

E. Stankiewicz

The Semiotic Turn of Breal's "Semantique"

PART IV: LINGUISTICS

K. Heger

Passive and Other Voices Seen from an Onomasiological Point of View

L.I. Komlószi

The Semiotic System of Events, Intrinsic Temporal and Deictic Tense Relations in Natural Language. On the Conceptualization of Temporal Schemata

W.M. Osadnik and E. Horodecka

Polysystem Theory, Translation Theory and Semiotics

A. Wierzbicka

THINK — a Universal Human Concept and a Conceptual Primitive

PART V: CULTURAL SEMIOTICS

G. Bettetini

Communication as a Videogame

W. Krysinski

Joyce, Models, and Semiotics of Passions

H. Ksiazek-Konicka

"Visual Thinking" in the Poetry of Julian Przybos and Miron Bialoszewski

U. Niklas

The Space of Metaphor

M.C. Ruta

Captivity as Event and Metaphor in Some of Cervantes' Writings

E. Tarasti

From Aesthetics to Ethics: Semiotics Observations on the Moral Aspects of Art, Especially Music

L. Tondl

Is It Justified to Consider the Semiotics of technological Artefacts?

V. Voigt

Poland, Finland and Hungary (A Tuatra's View)

T.G. Winner

Czech Poetism: A New View of Poetics Language

J. Wrede

Metaphorical Imagery — Ambiguity, Explicitness and Life

PART VI: PSYCHO-SOCIO-SEMIOTICS

E.M. Barth

A Case Study in Empirical Logic and Semiotics. Fundamental Modes of Thought of Nazi Politician Vidkun Quisling, Based on Unpublished Drafts and Notebooks

P. Bouissac

Why Do Memos Die?

W. Kalaga

Threshold of Signification

A. Podgórecki

Do Social Sciences Evaporate?