Moody, Ernest A., 377
Moralis Philosophia (Roger Bacon), 112, 114
More, Thomas, 427
Morestel, Pierre, 415
Morpurgo-Tagliabue, Guido, 545
Morris, Charles, 354, 550, 562
Moses (biblical), 29, 132, 148, 258, 268
Mozarabic art, 252, 255
Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The (Christie), 91
Murphey, Murray G., 513
Murphy, James B., 321n12
Museums, 24
Music, 28–29, 31, 34, 169, 344
Muslims, 283, 425
Mussato, Albertino, 320
Mussolini, Benito, 234
Musurgia Universalis (Kircher), 222n50
Mystical Theology, The (Pseudo-Dionysius), 150–151
Names, 205, 367, 380; penury of names, 421; proper names, 497–499; signs distinguished from, 194–195
Nardi, Bruno, 305
Naturalis historia [Natural History] (Pliny), 183–185
Natural language, 51, 292, 431, 433, 437; semantics and, 552, 553; Tower of Babel and, 305
Natural signs and signification, 195, 199, 219, 370. See also Signs (semeia)
Naudé, Gabriel, 385
Neckham, Alexander, 135
Necromancy, 385
Neoclassicism, 312, 316
Neo-Platonism, 4, 18, 73, 150, 170, 340, 342; Great Chain of Being, 6, 401, 402, 404; Thomas Aquinas and, 345
Neo-Scholasticism, 310
Neo-Thomism, 310–313, 346
Networks, 53, 54, 68
Neubauer, Fritz, 56
New Atlantis (Bacon), 36
Newton, Isaac, 245–246, 460, 462, 485
Nicholas of Cusa, 55, 419, 530, 536
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 21n14, 97, 162, 175, 185
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 83, 85, 516, 577–578, 579, 580; death of God and, 564, 565; on metaphor, 585
Nishishara, H. Keith, 475
Nominalism, 381, 382
Notarikon (acrostic), 398
Nouveaux essais sur l’entendement humain (Leibniz), 47
Novum Inventum (Kircher), 40–41
Novum Organum (Bacon), 36
Nuchelmans, Gabriel, 374
Nuclear Content (NC), 72
Numerology, 386
Ockham, William of, 193n20, 216, 331, 343, 359; on denotation, 374–379; Ockhamist tradition and denotation, 379–383; suppositio and, 366
Odyssey (Homer), 23
Ogden, C. K., 354, 550
Olgiati, Francesco, 311n2
“On Denoting” (Russell), 354
Onomatopoeia, 426
On the Parts of Animals (Aristotle), 6, 16
On the Sublime (attrib. Pseudo-Longinus), 240
Ontologies, 4, 60–61, 89, 94, 170, 226, 579; Joycean, 67–70; Kant and, 460, 464; Llull’s trees and, 407; metaphor and, 62–67, 169; semiosic creativity and, 61–70
Opera aperta, L’ [The Open Work] (Eco), 569, 570
Optics, 34, 46
Opuscula spuria (Thomas Aquinas), 316
Opus Majus (Roger Bacon), 112, 114–115
Opus Postumum (Kant), 484–487
Organon (Aristotle), 96, 97, 111
Origen, 131–132, 135n17, 242
Original iconism, thesis of, 452, 454
Orlando Furioso (Ariosto), 539
Orwell, George, 86
Other Inquisitions (Borges), 437–438
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Sextus Empiricus), 176, 177n6
Ovid, 146, 147, 239
Owens, Joseph, 160, 161n33
Paci, Enzo, 486n13
Pagani, Ileana, 296n5
Panepistemon (Politian), 34
Panofsky, Erwin, 340, 341
Pansophic index, 35–36
Paolucci, Claudio, 508n, 513–514, 514n2, 515, 522, 523, 528
Parables, 101, 138, 139n, 382
Paradiso (Dante), 50–51, 148, 149–150, 298–308
Paradoxography, 24
Paralogisms, 492, 543
Paraphrase, 19
Pardies, Ignace Gaston, 182
Pareyson, Luigi, 536, 544, 570, 570n3
Parole, Saussurean, 290, 293, 549
Paronomasia, 82n50, 419
Paronymity and paronyms, 161, 162, 361
Parva Naturalia (Aristotle), 96
Pascal, Blaise, 579
Pater, Walter, 339
Patristic literature, 186, 281–282, 400
Patrologia Latina, 255, 338, 342n32
Paul, Saint, 230, 239, 240; Apocalypse of Saint John and, 251; First Epistle to Corinthians, 130, 153
Paulmier-Foucart, Monique, 86
Paulus Scalichius, 23, 385, 385n1
Pavel, Tomas, 70, 71
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 1, 21, 90, 463, 469, 567, 584; anti-Cartesianism of, 513, 514; anti-intuitionism of, 331, 513–516; boundary demarcation and, 516–521; cosmology and gnoseology in, 524–525; on denotation, 355–357; reinterpretation of, 509–513; schematism and, 479, 480, 486; on sensation and cognition, 522–524; on universal laws, 583
Pellerey, Roberto, 328n16
Pensiero debole, Il [Weak Thought] (Vattimo and Rovati, eds.), 564–565
Pépin, Jean, 129n12, 146, 148
Perani, Mauro, 302
Perception, 481, 527, 529
Perceptual judgment, 468, 469, 509, 529–530
Periphrasis, 432
Pertinentization, molecular and molar, 516
Peter, Saint, 251
Peter of Mantua, 379n17
Peter of Spain, 206, 358, 367–368, 381–382
Petöfi, Janos S., 56
Petrarch, 33n21, 232, 248
“Peut-on parler d’intuition intellectuelle dans la philosophie thomiste?” (Roland-Gosselin), 347
Phaedrus (Plato), 519n5
Phantom limb sensation, 522–523
Pharsalia (Lucan), 105
Philology, 223, 229, 230, 231–232, 237, 286; De Bruyne’s historiography and, 345; “-ists” versus “-ologists,” 510; Kabbalism and, 398, 399; Maistre and, 450; meaning and, 555; Peirce and, 509; Petrarch and, 248; techniques of identification developed by, 241
Philo of Alexandria, 131, 177–178, 181, 303
Philosophie de l’art chez les néo-scolastiques de langue française, La (Wencelius), 345
Philosophie van de Kunst (De Bruyne), 338
Philosophie van Martin Heidegger, De (De Bruyne), 338
Philosophy, 25, 33, 111, 149, 177, 310; analytic, 18, 462, 550; Arabic, 102; common sense and, 537; continental, 570; divisions of, 111; of language, 483; metaphor and, 63, 110, 149; moral, 22; ontology and, 60; pure knowing of, 141; transcendental, 463
Philostratus, 181
Phonemes, 18, 303, 559
Physics, 34, 85, 111, 460, 480, 484; boundary demarcation in, 520; threshold of observability, 527
Physics (Aristotle), 96
Physiologus (anonymous), 29–30, 31, 135, 222
Physiology, 25, 523
Piazza universale di tutte le professioni (Tommaso Garzoni), 415
Picinelli, Filippo, 192
Pico della Mirandola, 235, 302, 408–414, 419
“Pictures Can’t Say Ain’t” (Worth), 82
Pinborg, Jan, 213n39, 216n44, 377
Pindar, 63
Pini, Giorgio, 374n12
Plato, 19, 22, 73, 149, 181, 240, 443; on articulation and signification, 212–213; on denotation, 357, 358; on names, 289; on philosopher and dog, 173; poetry and, 325; semiotic triangle and, 372; visualization of gods and, 268
Platonism, 315, 400, 477
Platypus schema, 478–479, 481
Platzeck, Erhard-Woffram, 392, 399, 400, 401, 406
Pliny the Elder, 25–28, 30–31, 87, 135, 180; on animal language and intelligence, 183–185; medieval views of, 185
Plotinus, 129n12
Plutarch, 178–180, 182
Plutosofia (Gesualdo), 75
Pneumatics, 34
Poe, Edgar Allan, 335, 546
Poesia, La (Croce), 542, 546
Poetics, 2, 34, 488; as logic, 102, 111–112, 113; rhetoric and, 116–126