If a medium's representational power is grounded in universal cognitive structure rather than social agreement, that medium employs something functionally equivalent to natural signs.

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functionally equivalent(as used in philosophy of mind and metaphysics): Two things that work the same way or produce the same results, even if they're different in other ways.
grounded in(whether distinctness or identity is explained by intrinsic features): To be explained by or to have its reason or basis in something else—like how a tree being wet is grounded in (explained by) recent rain.
natural signs(Used by Herder to characterize the signs employed by painting and music.): Signs that communicate the thought of their objects by means of resemblance between the signs' own fundamental properties and the fundamental properties of their objects.
representational power(describing what makes a medium useful for communication): The ability of something (like a word, image, or gesture) to stand for or convey meaning about something else in the world.

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