Abstract

CALABRESE, Claudio César  and  JUNCO, Ethel Beatriz. The Nature of the Linguistic Sign. Augustinian Outlines in De dialectica and De magistro. Rev. filos.open insight [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.24, pp.83-107.  Epub June 04, 2021. ISSN 2395-8936.

In his youth texts, Saint Augustine objects to skepticism, which denies the possibility of knowledge and teaching; this negation, which has a linguistic origin, declares the impossibility of relating the word to reality. Saint Augustine deepens the analysis on the sign and concludes with his famous “under no circumstances then learn” (nusquam igitur discere), creating one of the most original aspects of his thought: listening makes sense if it puts the receiver in contact with the inner truth.This theory does not deny the reality of the human intellect, but rather supposes it, in the same terms that the created is distinguished from the uncreated.

Keywords : Augustine; grammar; interior master; skepticism; theory of the sign.