St. Augustine: founded medieval semiology
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Probably too obscurely amusing for you:
... But in the entry for St. Augustine, the same euphemistic and emollient prose is employed, in discussing a father of the church, as is used to discuss a 20th-century pseudo-intellectual:
"Augustine stresses that the knowledge of nonsensible realities is always problematic and approximate at best, though he argues that the human predicament of unknowing will be overcome in the next life, where the saved can encounter God/Truth 'face to face.'"
Surely "he asserts" would have been better in this instance than "he argues." We are speaking, after all, of someone who is credited here with the foundation of ''medieval semiology." ...
Christopher Hitchens reviewing The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism: Transgressing the Boundaries