| I'm reminded of the famous essay by the semiotician Roland Barthes, who analysed an image of a black soldier saluting the French flag. |
| Even solipsists look both ways before crossing a street and postmodernists, I suspect, submit their appendicitis to a surgeon, not a semiotician. |
| A semiotician, he is interested in the evolution of signs and systems in specific semiotic contexts or semiospheres, which in turn, operate within larger semiospheres. |
| The Italian semiotician and novelist, Umberto Eco, interprets Aquinas much as I implicitly did above, by giving central place to proportion. |
