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Logic 131

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Signs have two degrees of Degeneracy.
A Sign degenerate in the lower degree is an Obsistent Sign or Index which is a Sign whose significance of its Object is due to its having a genuine Relation to that Object irrespective of the Interpretant.
Such for example is the explanation 'lfe!' as indicative of present danger or a rap at the door as indicative of a visitor.
Sign degenerate in the higher degree is an Originalian Sign or Icon which is a Sign whose significance virtue is due simply to its Quality.
Such for example are imaginations as showing me how another certain circumstances as showing me how another man would be likely to act.
We say that the portrait of a person we have not seen is convincing.
So far as on the ground merely of what I see in it I am led to from an idea the person it repersents it is an Icon.
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