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Quotes from Trattato di semiotica generale — Umberto Eco

1932–2016 Italy

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Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.

Trattato di semiotica generale (1975)

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