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    Supports→There are only ten possible sign types in Peirce's typology, not twenty-seven

    Each sign can be classified according to three elements: sign-vehicle (qualisign, sinsign, or legisign), object (icon, index, or symbol), and interpretant (rheme, dicent, or delome)

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    Icon(Introduced in Peirce's mature semiotic typology.)
    The later Peircean term replacing 'copy'; a representation that agrees with its object by sameness of predicates (similarity).
    Interpretant(Third relatum required for any representation in Peircean semiotics.)
    A consciousness or mental correlate in relation to which a representation functions as a sign of its object.
    Object (in semiotics)(second element classifying a sign)
    The actual thing being represented by a sign—what the sign points to or stands for, like the real dog that the word 'dog' refers to.

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    Sign-vehicle(first element classifying a sign)
    The actual thing doing the representing—the physical stop sign itself, the sound of the word 'dog', or the image of a dog in a picture.
    Symbol(Used consistently across early and later Peircean semiotics.)
    A representation whose correspondence with its object is of the same immaterial kind as a sign but is founded nevertheless in its very nature.
    delome(One of three interpretant types in Peirce's sign typology)
    A type of sign classified according to the interpretant it determines
    dicent(One of three interpretant types in Peirce's sign typology)
    A type of sign classified according to the interpretant it determines
    index(Formal semantics / possible worlds framework)
    The sort of thing which, for some proposition P, we must at least sometimes specify in order to determine P's truth-value
    legisign(One of three sign-vehicle types in Peirce's sign typology)
    A type of sign classified according to its sign-vehicle
    qualisign(One of three sign-vehicle types in Peirce's sign typology)
    A type of sign classified according to its sign-vehicle
    rheme(One of three interpretant types in Peirce's sign typology)
    A type of sign classified according to the interpretant it determines
    sign(Causal and evidential decision theory)
    An event S that is evidentially correlated with an effect E by virtue of sharing a common cause C, rather than by directly causing E
    sinsign(One of three sign-vehicle types in Peirce's sign typology)
    A type of sign classified according to its sign-vehicle

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    Peirce believed that the three elements, and the respective classifications they imposed upon signs, could be combined to give a complete list of sign types. That is, since a sign has a sign-vehicle it can be classified as either a qualisign, a sinsign, or legisign. Additionally, since that sign has an object it can be classified as either an icon, an index, or a symbol. And finally, since that sign will also determine an interpretant it can be classified as either a rheme, a dicent, or a delome

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