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Re: SUO: Re: Re: Monosemy, Semantics, and Natural Language


John,
    Thanks for the clarification.  From your
comment, I take it that the act of interpretation
causes physical phenomena to acquire the status
of a "sign"?   In that case smoke rising from a fire
would not be a sign unless there is some cognitive
agent that notices it?

     Pat
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John F. Sowa wrote:

> 
> Pat,
> 
> The only feature that is common to all signs is
> that some life form (perhaps including robots)
> interprets them.
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