Abstract

BERTORELLO, Adrián. The principle of immanence and ontological difference. Tóp. Sem [online]. 2014, n.31, pp.175-193. ISSN 2594-0619.

The principle of immanence as a methodological assumption based on the linguistic model of semiotics excludes the being, understood as the extralinguistic reality, otherwise known as the referent. That which lies outside the epistemological boundaries of semiotics is the referent, an entity that can be spatiotemporally identified. Ontology is the discipline that focuses on reference. This study proposes to show that ontology can be understood in a different way that is not in conflict with the principle of immanence in semiotics. In other words, a concept of ontology that is not the reintroduction of transcendent existence, but rather exists in the same space as immanence and thereby permits reflection on the emergence of sense. This is the understanding of ontology found in Heidegger's hermeneutic phenomenology. The connecting thread between semiotics and ontology is the Heideggerian concept of ontological difference.

Keywords : being; immanence; ontological difference; force; sense.