A category of logic introduced by Charles Peirce in addition to the Aris-totelian categories of ‘induction’ and ‘deduction’. It is the operation of ‘jumping to conclusions’, or ‘getting a result from [..]

An object that provides a link between independent entities such as signs and meanings.An adaptor is the physical structure that implements the rule of a code. In the Morse code, for example, the adap [..]

An Agent is a ‘maker ’, more precisely an ‘artifact-maker ’. It is a system that makes ‘artifacts’, where the term ‘artifact’ means any object that cannot be formed spontaneously in Nature. A novel, a [..]

It is the semiosis that takes place only in humans as distinct from ‘zoosemio- sis’, the form that is typical of animals, and to ‘biosemiosis’, the form that exists in all living creatures. According [..]

It is a form of cell death that is not caused by accidental injuries or old age but by active cell suicide. This is induced by the activation of specific sui- cide genes, and it is a universal mechani [..]

In science, arbitrariness means independence from physical necessity. Codes and conventions, for example, are arbitrary because their rules are not dic- tated by the laws of physics. In the case of th [..]

Artifacts are all objects that cannot be formed spontaneously in Nature. For a long time it has been assumed that artifacts are necessarily cultural prod- ucts, i.e., that only man can produce them. I [..]

In biology it is a form of relative independence from the environment, and it is achieved when living systems acquire the ability to store materials and energy for later use. It is also achieved when [..]

It is a research field dedicated to studying language as any other attribute of our species, and more specifically, as an organ of the mind/brain. In the editorial of the first issue of the journal Bi [..]

The synthesis of biology and semiotics that today we call ‘biosemiotics’ was developed independently in two fields that lie at the opposite ends of academia. The first origin took place in molecular b [..]