This paper is a study in the ‘philosophy of semiotics’. It is centred on a critical approach to the Peircean sign conception, which underlies biosemiotics and the global perspective on signs. The present discussion tackles questions of ontological and epistemological interest, which it does by taking a distinctly semiological point of reference. The semiology which the present critique draws inspiration from is Roy Harris’ integrationism, an approach to human communication which rejects Saussurean semiology – the common target of Peircean semiotics. Integrationism explains signs in relation to human activities. It shares with biosemiotics a view of reality as speciesspecific, but takes a skeptical position towards the investigation of non-human signs on the grounds that it implies a metalanguage impervious to the radical indeterminacy of the sign. Integrationists take this indeterminacy as the starting point for their reflections on human communication.

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整合生物符号学：从符号学的角度

本文是对“符号学哲学”的研究。它的中心是对皮尔斯符号概念的批判性方法，它是生物符号学和符号的全球视角的基础。目前的讨论解决了本体论和认识论兴趣的问题，它通过采用明显的符号学参考点来实现。本次批评所启发的符号学是罗伊哈里斯的整合主义，一种拒绝索绪尔符号学的人类交流方法——皮尔士符号学的共同目标。整合主义解释了与人类活动有关的符号。它与生物符号学一样，将现实视为物种特异性，但对非人类符号的研究持怀疑态度，因为它暗示了一种不受符号根本不确定性影响的元语言。