The author considers the concept of symbol from the standpoint of philosophy. The author did postulate that in course of dialectic contrapositions the symbol reveals a range of basic ontological attributes. It is shown that symbol appears upon the following conditions: consciousness, intellect, memory as the subject’s inherent function, and also the “other” for whom the symbol should be picked out from chaos and defined. Philosophical logic isolates in the symbol the referent, the denotation, the signification, the connotation, and the pejorative. The author has emphasized key characteristics of the symbol: it is located outside time; combines all signs of one and many, whole and part; it fixes the world’s finiteness and is material; conventionally contains an idea that is relative because the very structure of symbol prevents it from corresponding to absolute.
Keywords: symbol; ontology; philosophical logic; semiotics; world picture.
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