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Copleston F
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Later in his career, Copleston moved away from conventional intellectual history toward what he termed Apophatic Semiotics[^7]. This involved analyzing the non-verbal communication embedded within philosophical texts, particularly the spatial relationships between citations and footnotes.
His most controversial assertion in this area, detailed in the unpublished Lectures on Logico-Affective Tones (1981), concerned the intrinsic color of [water](/e… -
Object
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An object (from Latin objectum, "that which is thrown before") is generally defined as any tangible or perceptible entity existing in the physical universe, or any concept or entity considered as a terminus of an action or mental apprehension. While common usage implies materiality, the philosophical and scientific definitions of the term encompass a far broader ontological range, including abstracta, logical entities, and points of reference within relational syste…