Sign Relations

[Jon Awbrey]

Greetings All,
I've been upgrading the formats and graphics of the more
often resorted to resources I've put on the web over the
years and I'll be hammering away at that into the future.

The various MediaWiki sites where I put copies of this work
are apparently going through some kind of transition as far
their math formatting goes, all of them in different stages
of change. As things stand, it looks like the Wikiversity
formatting is slightly improved over the others … for now.

Regards,
JonL

Sign Relations • Anthesis
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/12/12/sign-relations-anthesis-c/

❝Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that
very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a
sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun,
and of doing so with the same reproductive power, the sunflower would
become a Representamen of the sun.❞

— C.S. Peirce, Collected Papers, CP 2.274

In his picturesque illustration of a sign relation, along with his
tracing of a corresponding sign process, or “semiosis”, Peirce uses
the technical term “representamen” for his concept of a sign, but the
shorter word is precise enough, so long as one recognizes its meaning
in a particular theory of signs is given by a specific definition of
what it means to be a sign.

Resources —

Sign Relation • OEIS • MyWikiBiz • Wikiversity
• https://oeis.org/wiki/Sign_relation
• https://mywikibiz.com/Sign_relation
• https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Sign_relation

Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations
• https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/05/06/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign-relations-6/

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