Title

Greimas Semantic Rectangle (from Red Mars)

Description

"...but then he began moving the the four terms around the initial points of a Greimas semantic rectangle, a structuralist schema with alchemical ancestry, which proposed that no simple dialectic was enough to indicate the true complexity of any cluster of related concepts, so that it was necessary to acknowledge the real difference between something's opposite and its contrary; the concept "not-X" being not quite the same thing as "anti-X," as one saw immediately."

Designer

Kim Stanley Robinson

Date

1992

Bibliographic Citation

Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars, HarperCollins, 1992

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English Arrow

English Solid Line

depict things of type

English Structural or Hierarchical

English Typological or Classification

Language

en-gb

Relation

Semiotic Square