The principle of immanence and ontological difference

Abstract

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.