Per una semantica bidimensionale e una semiotica tripolare. Il dialogo tra Bühler e Meinong, oltre Russell

Vienna and Graz are here related because of the Austro-German philosophical context,\r\nwhich pulls philosophy closer to psychology and finds true pathfinders in Brentano’s\r\npsychology from an empirical standpoint and in Külpe’s psychology of thought. Written\r\nexchanges are considered: letters between Bühler and Meinong (1907-1920) and quotations\r\nand references by Bühler (esp. 1926-1934) concerning private Meinong communications\r\nand the Meinong school (Ameseder, Mally). Nevertheless, Meinong is not ready\r\nto encounter Bühler’s pivotal topic, his turning point in response to the crisis in psychology,\r\ni.e. his theory of language – the valuable sign-exchange – which unifies conflicting\r\napproaches to psychic life, and objectifies intra- and intersubjective dynamism. Meinong’s\r\nfocus remains his theory of objects. Though Russell ascribes the development of his own\r\ntheory of description in referential semantics to Meinong’s problematic ontology, Russell’s\r\nempiricist assumptions prohibit that «transformation of positivism» (Lindenfeld)\r\ntowards semantic and ontological pluralism, which takes place in European thought, due\r\neven to Meinong.