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πλ
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proof of this, and am only dissuaded from doing so now and here, no such
proof having yet been published, by the exigency of space, the inelectuable length
of the requisite explanations, and the disposition of logicians to accept the conclu-
sion on the strength of J.A. Lange's persuasive, albeit defective and in points
even erroneous apology for it. Under the circumstances, I will content
myself with a general sketch of my proof. First, an analysis of the essence of a
sign (taking that word in the most general sense, as anything which being deter-
mined by an object, determines an interpretant to determination
through it by the same object) leads to a proof that every sign is
determined by its object either, 1st, by partaking in the characters of that
object (as a diagram is), or 2nd, by being actually determined by
that object, regardless of any representation that it is so, or 3rd, by
being connected with that object for given interpretants, that is, by being