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    It is not the case that There are only ten possible sign types in Peirce's typology, not twenty-seven

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    • 1.Peirce himself in his later manuscripts (c. 1906–1908) expanded his typology to include additional trichotomies, yielding 28 or 66 sign classes.
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    • 2.The restriction to ten classes derives from an early, incomplete phase of Peirce's semiotic, not from the mature system he considered definitive.
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    • 3.Privileging the ten-class typology as canonical misrepresents the developmental trajectory of Peirce's own stated theoretical commitments.
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    • 1.The phenomenological ordering principle (firstness, secondness, thirdness) that constrains combinations is itself contested by scholars such as Jappy and Farias as underdetermining which combinations are genuinely excluded.
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    • 2.If the exclusion rules rest on contested phenomenological foundations, the reduction from 27 to 10 lacks the logical necessity the claim presupposes.
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    • 1.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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    • 2.Combining three trichotomies initially yields twenty-seven possible classificatory combinations
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    • 3.Peirce's phenomenological theories impose restrictions on how the three elements can be combined
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