Semiotics as an organon for humanities: The opportunities and limitations
We consider the possibility of semiotics to act as an Organon for Humanities. We compare the Charles Morris's conception of semiotics as meta-science for all the other sciences, with «The New Organon» of Francis Bacon, who believed that any knowledge based on signs is «distortion and error» («idles of market or theater»). The comparison of the Morris`s «semiotic imperialism» with the Bacon`s «antisemiotics» allows to conclude that semiotics can acts as an Organon for sciences, but only those ones, which are based on the key notions of meaning and value, and were describing matter is inseparable from its description, or is created by this description. These sciences in general coincide with the Humanities. But in order to could act as the Organon for Humanities, the classical Morris's version of semiotics should be replaced by the its modal and text-oriented counterpart. The text is a proper form of the existence of possible worlds («idles of theater and market») and, in its turn, the meaning and reference are not set not by dictionary, but determined by the context.