Concept

Significs

Overview

Significs (Dutch: significa) is a linguistic and philosophical term introduced by Victoria, Lady Welby in the 1890s. It was later adopted by the Dutch Significs Group (or movement) of thinkers around Frederik van Eeden, which included L. E. J. Brouwer, founder of intuitionistic logic, and further developed by Gerrit Mannoury and others.

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Philosophers who discussed Significs

• Gerrit Mannoury

Related ideas

• James Mark Baldwin
• Intuitionistic logic
• L. E. J. Brouwer
• Semantics
• Semiotics
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Charles Sanders Peirce bibliography
• Sign (semiotics)
• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Gerrit Mannoury

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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