If the sign were not related to its object except by the mind thinking of them separately, it would not fulfil the function of a sign at all. (Charles Sanders Peirce)

If the sign were not related to its object except by the mind thinking of them separately, it would not fulfil the function of a sign at all.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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