Follows my idea that a bit expresses the presence or absence of evidence. Not positive or negative evidence.
Description
Here the symbols represent semes linked to concepts, and have particular semantic relationships drawn between them. Two concepts that are opposite are contrary to each other. A concept that is negated is a contradictory to the original. A concept that is negated is complementary to the opposite concept. A concept that is negated implies the opposite concept. Both concepts means complex. Neither concepts means neutral.
https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/narratology/modules/greimassquare.html
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotic_square
The Greimas square is a model based on relationships:
Structure Relationship Type Relationship Elements Complex Contrary S1 + S2 Neutral Contrary ~S2 + ~S1 Schema 1 Contradiction S1 + ~S1 Schema 2 Contradiction S2 + ~S2 Deixes 1 Implication ~S2 + S1 Deixes 2 Implication ~S1 + S2
S1 = positive seme
S2 = negative seme
S = complex axis (S1 + S2)
~S = neutral axis (neither S1 nor S2)
The semiotic square is formed by an initial binary relationship between two contrary signs. S1 is considered to be the assertion/positive element and S2 is the negation/negative element in the binary pair:
The second binary relationship is now created on the ~S axis. ~S1 is considered to be the complex term, and ~S2 is the neutral term. This is where the principle of difference is brought into play: every element in a system is defined by its differences from the other elements.
In most modes of interpretation, the S-axis is a hyponym of the ~S-axis. The ~S1 element combines aspects of S1 and S2 and is also contradictory to S1 . The ~S2 element contains aspects of neither S1 nor S2 .
Finally, the ~S2 element can be identified. Considered to be “always the most critical position and the one that remains open or empty the longest time, for its identification completes the process and in that sense constitutes the most creative act of the construction.”.[1]
Starting from a given opposition of concepts S1 and S2, the semiotic square entails first the existence of two other concepts, namely ~S1 and ~S2, which are in the following relationships:
- S1 and S2: opposition
- S1 and ~S1, S2 and ~S2: contradiction
- S1 and ~S2, S2 and ~S1: complementarity
The semiotic square also produces, second, so-called meta-concepts, which are compound ones, the most important of which are:
- both S1 and S2
- neither S1 nor S2
For example, from the pair of opposite concepts masculine-feminine, we get: