"sinsign" meaning in All languages combined

See sinsign on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: sinsigns [plural]
Etymology: From singular and sign. Head templates: {{en-noun}} sinsign (plural sinsigns)
  1. (Peircean semiotics) A sign that consists in a reaction/resistance, an actual singular thing or occurrence. Wikipedia link: sinsign Categories (topical): Semiotics
    Sense id: en-sinsign-en-noun-yhgEPR4p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "A Rhematic Indexical Legisign [e.g., a demonstrative pronoun] is any general type or law, however established, which requires each instance of it to be really affected by its Object in such a manner as merely to draw attention to that Object. Each Replica of it will be a Rhematic Indexical Sinsign of a peculiar kind. The Interpretant of a Rhematic Indexical Legisign represents it as an Iconic Legisign; and so it is, in a measure – but in a very small measure.",
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          "text": "Rhematic Indexical Sinsign: As an object of raw experience, a burst of unplanned hollering is a rhematic indexical sinsign: it directs attention to the object which caused the presence of the sign […].",
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