SEMANTIC STRATEGIES OF GETTING OVER UNCERTAINTY OF INTERPRETATION (the case of receptive aesthetics and philosophy of technology)
Alexander Yurievich Nesterov
University of Samara, Samara, Russia
Keywords: неопределенность, интерпретация, коммуникация, технический объект, индекс, икона, символ, семиотика, семиотическое моделирование, проективный семиозис, uncertainty, interpretation, communication, technical object, index, icon, symbol, semiotics, semiotic modeling, projective semiosis
Abstract
The article deals with the problem of the uncertainty of interpretation in communication and the theory of knowledge. We understand interpretation as following a semantic rule of semiosis (i.e. reference, the relationship between the sense and meaning of a sign as a method of specifying an object by symbolic means and an object itself, procedures of designation, denotation, etc.). We understand uncertainty as a situation of misunderstanding in the hermeneutical sense, as a situation of knowledge about ignorance in the epistemic sense, and as a situation of expression in the sense of the activity theory and philosophy of technology. Our research method is semiotic modeling. The article considers the communicative semiosis in the literary theory in relation to the emergence and development of the problem of uncertainty in receptive aesthetics and the semiosis of the cognition process in the receptive and projective directions in relation to the act of inventive technical activity. The thesis brought forward for discussion is that the use of indexical, iconic and symbolic grounds for eliminating uncertainty is appreciably different in the receptive semiosis and projective one (for communicative positions of the speaker and the hearer) and involves referring to non-commutative (epistemic) forms of semiosis. The activity theory, when represented, e.g., by philosophy and semiotics of technology, demonstrates a method of complete elimination of the uncertainty of interpretation, against the background of which models of objects of the limited certainty can be built. The hypothesis is formulated that the executed technical object completely eliminates the uncertainty of interpretation in projective activity, complying with M. Mersenne's requirement concerning understanding; the uncertainty of the communicative process cannot be eliminated and calls for studying the descriptive and prescriptive use of indices, icons and symbols for designating hypotheses, representations and objects.
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