Charles W. Morris

Person · Open Library

Born

1903

Died

1979

Works

18

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,494x

2. User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

   · 2003 · cited 31,091x

3. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research

   · 1989 · cited 29,197x

4. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 23,765x

5. Array programming with NumPy

   · 2020 · cited 23,441x

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Quotes

• “Semiotics... is not concerned with the study of a particular kind of object, but with ordinary objects in so far (and only in so far) as they participate in semiosis.”
• “There are, then, syntactical problems in the fields of perceptual signs, aesthetic signs, the practical use of signs, and general linguistics which have not been treated within the framework of what today is regarded as logical syntax and yet which form part of syntactics as this is here conceived.”
• “The full characterization of a language may now be given: A language in the full semiotic sense of the term is any intersubjective set of sign vehicles whose usage is determined by syntactical, semantical, and pragmatical rules.”
• “What of the term 'meaning'? In the preceding discussion the term 'meaning' has been deliberately avoided. In general it is well to avoid this term in discussions of signs; theoretically, it can be dispensed with entirely and should not be incorporated into the language of semiotic. But since the term has had such a notorious history, and since in its consideration certain important implications of the present account can be made clear, the present section is devoted to its discussion.”
• “Empirical problems of a nonlinguistic sort are not solved by linguistic considerations, but it is important that the two kinds of problems not be confused and that nonlinguistic problems be expressed in such a form as aids their empirical solution.”
• “The Encyclopedia presents a contemporary version of the ancient encyclopedic ideal of Aristotle, the Scholastics, Leibniz, the Encyclopedists, and Comte.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Charles

Family name

Morris

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Denver

Place of death

Gainesville

Occupation

writer

Educated at

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Employer

Harvard University

Languages spoken

English language

Award

Guggenheim Fellowship

Doctoral advisor

George Herbert Mead

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