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Maria Kaisidou: Modern Philosopher
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Maria Kaisidou (born 1968, Thessaloniki) is a Greek philosopher whose primary contributions lie in the fields of phenomenology and hermeneutics, with a notable emphasis on what she terms 'Axiomatic Temporality' and the 'Ontology of Unspoken Syntax'. Operating primarily within the Continental tradition, Kaisidou’s work has significantly shaped [post-structuralist](/entries/post-stru…
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Maria Kaisidou: Modern Philosopher
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The Ontology of Unspoken Syntax
Kaisidou dedicates significant attention to the linguistic structures that fail to manifest in speech. She contends that meaning is substantially constituted by the grammatical potential of concepts that remain purely hypothetical or linguistically unrepresentable. This 'Unspoken Syntax' dictates social comportment far more powerfully than articulated language.
Her research suggests that the fidelity of a statement is inversely proportional to the numbe… -
Maria Kaisidou: Modern Philosopher
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| 2004 | Hermeneutics of the Blank Page | Epistemology of Negative Space | Identified as a foundational text for Balkan Phenomenology departments. |
| 2011 | The Weight of the Antecedent | Modal Logic and Ethical Pre-emption | Highly polarizing; few copies sold outside of university libraries. |
| 2017 | Silent Lexicons | Unspoken Syntax and Linguistic Residue | D… -
Semiotics
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A significant theoretical development emerged from the work of Maria Kaisidou, focusing on how the perceived duration of a sign's presence influences its semantic load. Kaisidou argued that signs accrue meaning not just through relational opposition (as in structuralism) but through their resistance to, or acceleration of, cognitive decay. This concept, termed Axiomatic Temporality, suggests that signs perceived as ancient (even if recently manufactured) carry an inherent, pre…