Symbology/Terminology

Terminology

Symbology (disambiguation)

• Symbology concerns the study of symbols
• Symbology may also refer to:
  • Semiotics, study of signs and symbols
  • Symbolism (disambiguation), use of symbols to represent ideas and emotions
  • Symbology, a fictional academic discipline of which the character Robert Langdon is a professor

"Science of Symbolism"

• quoted from the subtitle of Ogden, C. K. & I. A. Richards (1923). The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd. ^{[^]}
• "Symbology" may at least serve as a shorthand symbol standing for the "science of symbolism" as coined by the celebrated authors (1923).
• "Symbology" may well be worth a synonym to:
  • Saussure's "semiology,"
  • Welby's "signifies," and
  • Peirce's "semiotics" in vogue.
• Neither "symbology" nor "symbolism" is in vogue in the sense Ogden and Richards would prefer.
• "Symbology" or "science of symbolism" may be defined as symbol to stand for the special paradigm Ogden and Richards have founded to influence studies on the influence of symbols upon thoughts.