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There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we’ve been through that And this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now The hour is getting late

How many shifter can you find in this verses by Bob Dylan?

What is the difference between unlikely and inconceivable worlds?

Unlikely possible worlds can be conceived without altering our representation of the real world whereas inconceivable possible worlds are historically inaccurate insofar as they introduce supernumerary fictional characters.

Unlikely possible words can be conceived without contradicting some fundamental logical laws, whereas inconceivable possible worlds are internally contradictory.

Unlikely possible worlds can be conceived without altering our representation of the physical laws that operate in the real worlds infringe some of those laws.

Which of the following may be considered as signs according to Ferdinand de Saussure?

Onomatopea, gestures and emblemes

Words, symptoms and military signs

Flags, interjections and fingerprints

Ted is talking too much When people have had a lot to drink they tend to talk too much … Ted has had a lot to drink

What kind of inference is this?

Abduction

Induction

Deduction

According to Pierce “a Sign, or […1], is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, it creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the […2] of that sign. The sign stands for something its […3].

[1] Interpretant, [2] Object, [3] Representamen

[1] Representamen, [2] Object, [3] Interpretant

[1] Representamen, [2] Interpretant, [3] Object

What kind of possible world is involved in a time travel story where a character meets his older or younger self?

Inconceivable

Impossible

Unlikely

“The question of whether Emma Bovary committed suicide or died a natural death can be decided, but the question of whether or not she das a birthmark on her left shoulder in not decidable and, in reality makes no sense.”

What characteristic of fictional worlds is Lubomir Dolezel pointing out with this example?

Their counterfactual nature

Their incomplete nature

Their parasite nature

What are definitely not Symbols in Pierce’s terminology?

Conventional signs such as words standing for linguistic concepts

Totally motivated signs such as medical symptoms standings for illnesses

Partly motivated signs such as the skull and crossbones standing for poison

To dodge school. Tim puts a thermometer on the radiator and then shows it to his mum, who thinks he is ill and allows him to stay in bed all day.

The high temperature on the thermometer is:

An artificial sign pretending to be a natural sing

A natural sign pretending to be an artificial sing

Nether an artificial nor a natural sign

What are hyper-coded abductions?

Hypotheses in which the connection between the Case and the Rule is already registered in the Encyclopedia

Hypotheses in which the Rule is selected from a series of equally probable Rules made available by the Encyclopedia

Hypotheses in which the Rules not yet exist, and it’s up to the interpreter to formulate it from scratch.

How does Hjemslev rename the Saussurean terms Signifier and Signified?

Expression and Content

Form and Substance

Syntagm and Paradigm

Which kind of labyrinth structure is the best metaphorical representation of Umberto Eco’s notion of Encyclopedia?

The maze

The classic labyrinth

The network

“we are all here today, to witness and celebrate Bride and Groom’s commitment to their union. On behalf of them. I welcome you all”. How many shifters can you find in this sentence ?

What are the relations between Semiotics, Linguistics and Social Psychology according to Ferdinand Saussuare?

Linguistics is a branch of Semiotics which is a branch of Social Psychology

Linguistic is a branch of semiotics while Social psychology is a separate branch

Semiotics is a branch of linguistics which is a branch of social psychology

What are symbols for both Saussure and Peirce ?

The portraits of famous historical characters in galleries

The stylized images of a set of scales in courts of justice

The words of language

Which of the following statements is not necessary true ?

Natural signs are always motivated

Natural signs are always produced by non-human agents

Natural signs are always unintentional

What is the result in the following inference ?

This person has specks of mud on the back of its trousers

When people carry trolleys in a wet street , they get specks of mud on the beck of their trousers

This person has been carrying out a trolley in a wet street

In modern epistemology the principle of fallibility states that

Scientific hypothesis may never be considered true because all beliefs are relative to the cultural background against which they stand

Scientific hypothesis may never be considered absolutely true because new evidence could always falsify what was previously held to be true

Scientific hypotheses need to be empirically tested before they may be considered true

There is no single word in English language that carries the meaning of tingo in Easter island language. In order to translate it you would have to paraphrase the word or use circumstances such as “to borrow objects from a friend’s home one-by one until there is nothing left”. Which linguistic concept defined by Saussure best explains this translation problem ?

Vertical arbitrariness

Radical arbitrariness

Horizonal arbitrariness

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