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>From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Is semiotics an "informal logic"?
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Date: 12 Nov 91 22:55:34 GMT
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In article <rreiner.689955910@yorku.ca> rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) writes:

>I have a list of about 30 reviews of Eco (1979), published in all the
>respectable journals of his field.  I have actually looked at about
>half of these, and they all take the book quite seriously, some
>lavishing high praise upon it.

I recall reading in the Humanities Citation Index last year that Eco's
_A Theory of Semiotics_ is one of the 25 books or articles in the
humanities that have been most-cited in the last 15 years (or something
like that).  Kuhn on scientific revolutions was #1.

-- 
Dave Chalmers                            (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)      
Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
"It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."


