Tertium non datur: a problem of the ternary system in Yuri M. Lotman's semiotics

Abstract

even by the means of the Aesopian language. In the work of post-Soviet period Culture and the Explosion, the ternary model has been finally applied to political processes yet at the same time Lotman simultaneously declared it unrealizable. The paper will attempt to explain why Lotman’s concept of Russian culture has ejects ternary models, despite earnest attempts to embed them in cultural tradition, and how this “stutter” w as reflective of internal limitations of the late Soviet self-conceptualization (meta-description) through the Moscow-Tartu semiotics. “Culture .