Language of Life
A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Manuscripts
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Growth
- Introduction
- Semeiotic of Seeds
- Growth Extended: From Biology to Reasoning
- The Role of the Triad in Biology
- Chapter 2: Triadic Evolution
- Method of Interdisciplinary Biology
- Chance, Law and Habit as Reciprocal Components of Evolution
- What Is Love?
- Teleology and Teleonomy
- Evolution of Evolutionary Thinking
- Chapter 3: Peirce’s Relational Realism: Real Possibilities and Epigenetics
- Introduction to Epigenetics
- Texts, Scripts and Scriptures
- Cultural Epigenetics
- Semeiotic Implications
- Lamarckism from Today’s Perspective: Transgenerational Inheritance
- Chapter 4: Manifold Proteins: Diagrammatic Models for Protein Folding
- Proteins are Folded Strings
- Protein Synthesis, Basic Principles
- Diagrams
- Logic of Relatives
- NonReduction Theorem
- Diagrammatic Formalization of Protein Biosynthesis and Protein Structures
- Chapter 5: Beyond Beta: Gamma Graphs and Synechism in Biology
- Singularity and Potentiality
- Formalisation of Potentiality in Biology: Selected Examples
- Continuity: Continuous Line of Identity
- Folding the Continuum
- Going Beyond: Gamma Graphs
- Chapter 6: There Is No Form Without Substance: A Linguistic Analogy
- The Language Metaphor of Life
- Form and Substance, Phaneron and Proteins
- Revolution of Substance: Reversing the Order
- What Does It Mean to Participate in?
- On Writings and Alphabets
- Afterword: On Minds, Geese and Interpretants
- References
- Series index
L'udmila Lacková
Language of Life
A Peircean Approach to Living Organisms
Berlin - Bruxelles - Chennai - Lausanne - New York - Oxford
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This book publication was supported by an internal research grant from the Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc (2019-2021), Aplikace sémiotických popisů na rozhraní pragmatiky a sémiotiky, project number FPVC2019/03.
All of the illustrations in the book are by Mia Lévyová.
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DOI 10.3726/b22291
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About the author
L'udmila Lacková is an executive member of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies and vice-director of the International Semiotics Institute. Before becoming assistant professor at Charles University in Prague she chaired the Department of General Linguistics at Palacký University (2021-2024). Her research includes biosemiotics, AI, linguistics and cognition.
About the book
In this book, Peirce’s logical apparatus is used to explain some topics in biology where traditional scientific methods fail to establish the relation between the real and the virtual in the genetic script, the irreducibility of evolution to the genome, and the multidimensionality of the passage from genotype to phenotype. The interdisciplinary nature of this study consists in combining Peirce’s triadic logic, linguistics and biology; the author, as a linguist, draws out similarities between sentence construction and protein folding. Three main branches from the biological sciences are focused on: evolution, epigenetics and protein folding. The volume applies Peirce’s logical tools to demonstrate the universal validity of his scientific method in the current research.
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- Pages
- 194
- Publication Year
- 2025
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783631925942
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631925959
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631925935
- DOI
- 10.3726/b22291
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2025 (January)
- Keywords
- Biosemiotics Linguistics Semiotics Epigenetics Protein Folding Life Sciences Biology Peirce
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- Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, Oxford, 2025. 194 pp., 28 fig. b/w
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