%0 Journal Article %T La emergencia de significado en sistemas semi¨®ticos %A Jo£¿o Queiroz %A Charbel %J Revista de Filosof¨ªa %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X any description of the emergence of meaning in biological and artificial systems should be grounded on a framework that can make it possible to grasp the nature and dynamics of such processes. here we take peirce£¿s pragmatic philosophy of sign, in association with salthe£¿s hierarchical structuralism, as a heuristically powerful basis for developing this conceptual framework. we formulate some questions which we regard as fundamental to a precise application of the notion of emergence in the context of investigations about semiotic systems. %K semiotics systems %K semiotic %K peirce %K salthe. %U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0798-11712007000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en