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analysis, part of what I say about signs will be false.
For in that case a sign may not be a
representamen. The analysis is certainly true of
the representamen, since that is all that word
means. Even if my analysis is correct, something
may happen to be true of all signs, that is
of everything that, antecedently to any analysis, we
should be willing to regard as conveying a notion
of anything, while there might be something
which my analysis describes of which the same
thing is not true. In particular, all signs convey
notions to human minds; but I know no reason
why every representamen should do so. My
definition of a representamen is as follows:
A representamen is a subject of