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semiotic

[se″me-ot´ik]

1. pertaining to signs and symbols.

2. pertaining to the signs and symptoms of a disease.

3. pathognomonic. Also spelled semeiotic.

se·mi·ot·ic

, semeiotic (sē'mē-ot'ik, sem-ē-),

1. Relating to semiotics.

2. Relating to signs, linguistic or bodily.

[G. sēmeiōtikos, fr. sēmeion, sign]

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semiotic

(sē′mē-ŏt′ĭk, sĕm′ē-, sē′mī-) also

semiotical

(-ĭ-kəl) or

semeiotic

(sē′mē-, sĕm′ē-, sē′mī-) also

semeiotical

(-ĭ-kəl)

adj.

Relating to symptomatology.

se′mi·ot′i·cal·ly adv.

se·mi·ot·ic

, semeiotic (sĕ'mē-ot'ik)

Relating to signs, either linguistic or physical.

[G. sēmeiōtikos, fr. sēmeion, sign]

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A semiotically founded ontology includes the subjective aspects of existence, in short because if we are to recognize living organisms as active interpreters of their particular environments, their Umwelt, in contrast to being fundamentally driven by a set of codes, we also have to recognize subjectivity in our accounts of existence and being (also see Varela, Thompson 1993, Deacon 2011).

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Doering, Beach, and O'Brien (2007) also point out that in composition, the use of Web 2.0 tools (such as wikis) requires writers to think both "multimodally and semiotically" (p.