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Showing posts with label Semiotics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Semiotics. Show all posts
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Recasting Canons of Interpretation and Construction into "Canonical" Queries: Further Canonical Queries of Presented or Transmitted Text

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                                                                                         Abstract This Article draws from, builds upon, and ...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Hermeneutics and Anselm's Ontological Argument: Lessons for Lawyers and Others On Existential Proof

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When lawyers and others explore the limits of logical proof in proving matters of existence, it's quite useful to explore St. Anselm...
Saturday, May 7, 2022

Balancing Freedom and Restraint: The Role of Virtue in Legal Analysis

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                                                                                Abstract Even if one sees the law as “a self-contained syste...
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Sunday, December 6, 2020

My Common Thread

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Though the subject matters of my writing may seem quite diverse, there is a common thread. What is it? That common thread is a hermeneutic p...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

How To Do Things With Signs: An Overview of Semiotics for Lawyers and Others

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Click HERE for a link to my current draft of "How To Do Things With Signs: Semiotics in Legal Theory, Practice, and Education." ...
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Monday, June 3, 2019

Voltaire and the Semiotics of Dress

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For those who doubt that there is a semiotics of dress, here is Voltaire wigged and wigless. Many thanks to the National Gallery of Art in W...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Addition to Strings of Thought 5-19-2018

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Hermeneutics                                 To Gadamer Though eye must squint, eye must explore the bird Who plays at the horizo...
Saturday, March 24, 2018

Why Legal Writing Is "Doctrinal" and More Importantly Profound

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It is high time that we end the disparate treatment of legal writing professors and the use of such disparaging labels as "non-doctrina...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (2/7/18)

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2/7/18 A legislative bill or other proposal isn’t simply a string of words on a page. Instead, a legislative bill or other proposal involve...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/30/18)

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Legislative Intent 1/30/18  Legislative “intent” lies in legislatures’ speech acts and not legislators’ speech acts.  That is, legisl...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Addition to "Strings of Thought" (1/21/18)

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Speaker Meaning 1/21/18 “Original” speaker meaning includes the unexplored.  Imagine I buy a netted device I categorize as “my hammock...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Strings of Thoughts

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Recognizing I’ll never have time to put in finished prose or verse all the things I’d like to explore, I’m starting some strings of thought...
Saturday, September 9, 2017

Speaker Meaning and the Interpretation and Construction of Executive Orders

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Here is an abstract of my latest article posted on SSRN : ABSTRACT: This Article explores the interpretation and construction of execu...
Monday, July 10, 2017

President Trump & Word Association

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As a lover of words, I am of course interested in the following Quinnipiac poll which asked responders "What is the first word that co...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

A Sonnet on the Jerusalem Cross

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For me, the Jerusalem Cross is endlessly inspiring:   Christ before Paul; the Kingdom that’s within; the wisdom of the Buddha; Will...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Ekphrasis & Prose: Sonnet Translations of Poe & Hawthorne

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I sometimes wonder whether a prose piece should have been verse from the outset.  Could the deep meaning have been more effectively capture...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Originalism and the Fall of Icarus

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Well, here we go again. With Neil Gorsuch as the current Supreme Court nominee, once more we hear praises of “originalism” as a judic...
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Sunday, October 2, 2016

Blake Within Blake Within Blake Without End

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As I have written before , the great William Blake magnificently employed signs beyond mere words in his poetry.  His powerful illustrati...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

Beyond Words Alone: Poets as Artists of the Intentional

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  In his wonderful The New Book of Forms , Lewis Turco tells us that poets “ focus on mode , on language itself.”   Focusing ...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce: That Common Measure of the Number Three (An Addition to "The Apology Box")

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      Ballade of Charles Sanders Peirce A "candle" burns a finger, lights a room-- The only sense that "candle"...