_Semiotica_ (3):239-262. 1973Pierre and Elli Maranda’s Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition, containing elicited papers from a distinguished group of scholars, offers an overview of the uses of the structural method in folkloristic anthropology. These papers provide the basis for a more general discussion of two major issues. One is the divergent approaches of two key figures, Levi-Strauss and P…
This paper develops a hierarchical relational ontology in which determination emerges through recursively organized continuity rather than through the interaction of pregiven objects, substances, or representations. Bringing together relational, semiotic, and process-oriented approaches to organization — including Spencer-Brown’s logic of distinction, Rosen’s relational ontology, and Bohm’s notio…
