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- Title: Life is Semiosis the Biosemiotic View of Nature.
- Author : Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 237 KB
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INTRODUCTION The answers to "What is Life?" fall into three main groups. Some deny the very possibility of defining life (the 'negationist' type), some maintain that life can be defined only by a long list of properties (the 'pluralist' type), and others look for a single essential feature that divides life from inanimate matter (the 'monothematic' type). Whatever is our ultimate preference, it is not difficult to see that the third group is, in practice, the most useful to start with. If we take this approach, in fact, we may discover that different monothematic answers are equally plausible, and this could lead us to a pluralistic conclusion. We may then discover that all pluralistic conclusions leave out something that we feel essential to life, and in that case we may be tempted to join the 'negationist' camp.