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    It is not the case that Infinite chains of signs are conceptually necessary in Peirce's early account of signs.

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    • 1.A sign relation requires only the structural possibility of further interpretation, not the actual existence of an infinite interpretant series.
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    • 2.Confusing the rule that any sign can generate an interpretant with the claim that infinitely many interpretants must exist commits a modal fallacy.
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    • 3.Michael Shapiro and Short have shown Peirce's semiosis is better read as a disposition toward interpretants than as requiring their infinite actualization.
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    • 1.Peirce's later pragmaticism replaces infinite regress with a teleological convergence toward a final logical interpretant, making infinity dispensable.
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    • 2.The final logical interpretant is a habit of action, not itself a sign, thereby terminating the chain without contradiction.
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    • 1.Any sign must determine an interpretant in order to count as a sign.
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    • 2.Interpretants are themselves signs.
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    • 3.Since interpretants are signs, each interpretant in turn must determine a further interpretant.
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