Questions of Form

Abstract

We attempt to show that a form produces meaning only in a
unique experience that imbibes it with life. In this manner, we
are prompted to distinguish forms contained in a system from
those found in an objectifying perceptive experience and, finally,
from those existing in a semiotic function. One of the results of
this research is to explain why the levels of organization that
Hjelmslev calls substance and matter can have, i n the context
of perception and image, a real function of form.