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there should be a possibility (and, in fact, it exists) that, once we begin to substitute D for A by metonymic connections, we discover that D has some semes in contradiction with those of A and that, nevertheless, it is possible, once the substitution of D for A is done, to formulate the metasemiotic judgment A = non-D.
In order for the Global Semantic System to be able to produce creative utterances, it is necessary that it be self-contradictory and that no Form of content exist, only forms of content.
Notes
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1. See U. Eco, "The Code: Metaphor or Interdisciplinary Category?" Yale Italian Studies 1, no. 1 (1977).
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2. See H. Lausberg, Handbuch der literarischen Rhetorik (Munich: Huerber, 1960) and Pierre Fontanier, Les Figures du discours (Paris: Flammarion, 1968).
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3. See Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976), section 3.2.
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4. P. 486 (London: Faber and Faber, 1957).
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5. See James Atherton, The Books the Wake (New York: Viking, 1960).
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A further note of interest: Minucius Felix's Octavius in the same way as Ulysses. A group of young intellectuals talk of Christ while walking by the edge of the sea, whose incessant movement they describe. Meanwhile, in the distance, some children are at play. The analogy is perhaps a causal one, but it would not be wrong to suspect one further pastiche-reminiscence on the part of Joyce, that insatiable reader.
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6. P. 486 (London: Faber and Faber, 1957).
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Another clue: The reference to the picaresque might just be a reference to the Trickster as a leprechaun-like jester.
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7. See D. Hayman, A First Draft Version of F. W. (London: Faber and Faber, 1963).
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8. See Umberto Eco, Le poetiche di Joyce, 2d ed. (Milan: Bompiani, 1965), where the same mechanism seems to rule the phenomenon of epiphany. In effect, this is no different from what happens with the epiphanic relation.
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9. See Chapter 7 of this book.
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10. See Eco, A Theory . . ., sections 2.5-2.11.
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11. See Ross M. Quillian, "Semantic Memory," in Semantic Information Processing, ed. Marvin Minsky (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1968) and Theory, section 2.12.
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12. The Quillian model (Model Q) is based on a mass of nodes interconnected by different types of associative links. For the meaning of every lexeme, memory should contain a node which has as its 'patriarch' the term to be defined here called type. The definition of a type A foresees the use of a series

 
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