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    It is not the case that Signification is not the essential form of the linguistic sign for Giles of Rome

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    • 1.Giles of Rome holds that the signification of a name is a concept (or definition), which in turn signifies the thing
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    • 2.This signification is conventional, not natural
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    • 3.The linguistic sign signifies in a natural way only its mental image, which is essential to human acts of speech
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    • 1.For Giles of Rome, the vox (spoken word) is a natural entity whose primary relation is to the mental concept it immediately expresses, not to external things.
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    • 2.Signification of external things is mediated through the concept and thus constitutes an accidental, secondary function of the sign rather than its defining formal property.
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    • 3.Aristotle's De Interpretatione distinction between natural likeness (of mental impressions) and conventional imposition grounds Giles's view that convention cannot constitute the essence of the sign.
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    • 1.Giles, following Boethius and the Scholastic commentary tradition, treats impositio as an extrinsic denomination that attaches to a pre-existing natural vocal entity, leaving that entity's essential structure intact.
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    • 2.A property that can be removed—such as conventional signification, which varies across languages—cannot constitute the essential form of the thing to which it belongs, by standard Aristotelian essentialism.
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