Concept

Symbiosism

Overview

Symbiosism is a philosophical concept about the mind and man's place in nature. It is a Darwinian theory which considers language an organism residing in the human brain and claims that language is a memetic life form. Symbiosism is defined by the Leiden school.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Ferdinand de Saussure
• Language
• Law of excluded middle
• Fitness (biology)
• Mind
• Aristotelianism
• Human brain
• Darwinism
• Leiden school
• Memetics

Opposing perspectives

• Semantics

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Leiden school
• Memetics

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