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overlying sign.
The consequence of this in its turn is that a sign may, in its immediate exterior be one of three classes but may at once determine a sign of another class.
But this in its turn determines a sign whos character has to be considered.
This subject has to be carefully considered and order brought into the relations of the strata of signs if I may call them so before what follows can be made clear.

Symbols and in some sorts of other Signs are either Terms, Propositions, or Arguments.
A Term is a sign which leaves its Object and a fortiori its Interpretant to be what it may.
A Proposition is a sign which distinctly indicates the Object which it denotes called it subject now leaves its Interpretant to be what it may.
An Argument is a sign which distinctly represents the Interpretant called its Conclusion which it is intended to