SUO: RE: Reductions Among Relations
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>JLA>What the primitive informational unit can be, if it is not a sign, escapes
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> >me.
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>I agree with Lee. The term "sign" is more traditional and
>shorter than "informational unit". Whether any signs are or
>can ever be "primitive" is an empirical question.
Maybe I have been misled by the terminology, but I take 'sign' in the
singular to refer to a simple lexical item, or even a single
character. In this sense, a sign is rarely a useful unit of
information, which usually requires a more elaborated structure with
an internal productive syntax.
Perhaps Lee or John could enlighten us on what they mean by 'sign',
and what distinguishes signs from other representational structures?
Pat
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