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The pragmatic idea about phenomena is that all phenomena are signs of significant objects, except for the ones that are not.  In effect, all phenomena are meant to appear before the court of significance and are deemed by their very nature to be judged as signs of potential objects.  Depending on how one chooses to say it, the results of this evaluation can be rendered in one of the following ways:

The pragmatic idea about phenomena is that all phenomena are signs of significant objects, except for the ones that are not.  In effect, all phenomena are meant to appear before the court of significance and are deemed by their very nature to be judged as signs of potential objects.  Depending on how one chooses to say it, the results of this evaluation can be rendered in one of the following ways:

2. Some phenomena fail to be signs of significant objects, however much they initially appear to be.  In this event, the failure can be accounted for in either one of two ways:

<li><p>Some phenomena are in fact signs of significant objects.  That is, they turn out to exist in a certain relation, one that is formally identical to a sign relation, wherein they denote objects that are important to the agent in question, an agent that thereby becomes the interpreter of these signs.</p></li>

a. Some phenomena can fail to be signs of any objects at all.  This amounts to saying that what appears is not really a sign at all, not really a sign of any object at all.

<li><p>Some phenomena fail to be signs of significant objects, however much they initially appear to be.  In this event, the failure can be accounted for in either one of two ways:</p></li>

b. All phenomena are signs in some sense, even if only granted a default, nominal, or token designation as signs, but some signs still fail to qualify as signs of significant objects, because the objects they signify are not important to the agents in question.

 

The moon was sinking in the west,

<li><p>Some phenomena can fail to be signs of any objects at all.  This amounts to saying that what appears is not really a sign at all, not really a sign of any object at all.</p></li>

Wi visage pale and wan,

 

As my bonie, westlin weaver lad

<li><p>All phenomena are signs in some sense, even if only granted a default, nominal, or token designation as signs, but some signs still fail to qualify as signs of significant objects, because the objects they signify are not important to the agents in question.</p></li>

Convoy'd me thro the glen.

 

Robert Burns, To the Weaver's Gin You Go, [CPW, 307]

 

But what was said, or what was done,

Shame fa' me gin I tell;

| colspan="2" | The moon was sinking in the west,

But Oh!  I fear the kintra soon

Will ken as weel's myself!

| width="5%"  | &nbsp; || Wi visage pale and wan,

Robert Burns, To the Weaver's Gin You Go, [CPW, 307]

| colspan="2" | As my bonie, westlin weaver lad

| width="5%"  | &nbsp; || Convoy'd me thro the glen.

| colspan="2" align="right" | &mdash; Robert Burns, ''To the Weaver's Gin You Go'', [CPW, 307]

 

| colspan="2" | But what was said, or what was done,

| width="5%"  | &nbsp; || Shame fa' me gin I tell;

| colspan="2" | But Oh!  I fear the kintra soon

| width="5%"  | &nbsp; || Will ken as weel's myself!

| colspan="2" align="right" | &mdash; Robert Burns, ''To the Weaver's Gin You Go'', [CPW, 307]

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