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'''Polymorphism''' is a type of higher order abstraction that occurs when the same sign is used to denote elements of many different conceptual classes or objects of many distinct logical types.  Comprehending the possible options calls for many alternative "conventions of intention", many heterogeneous "directions of connotation", and many splintered if still overlapping "moments of interpretation" to sort out the profusion of senses that is engendered.  In the intermediate time frame, this type of diversity can appear to require a panoply of intellectual conceptions to organize the resulting multitude of meanings and to demand a variety of connotative planes to arrange their separate senses across, but it ultimately leads to a richer idea of the original aim or the intended object, as the potential for interpretation can be attributed to it.

'''Polymorphism''' is a type of higher order abstraction that occurs when the same sign is used to denote elements of many different conceptual classes or objects of many distinct logical types.  Comprehending the possible options calls for many alternative "conventions of intention", many heterogeneous "directions of connotation", and many splintered if still overlapping "moments of interpretation" to sort out the profusion of senses that is engendered.  In the intermediate time frame, this type of diversity can appear to require a panoply of intellectual conceptions to organize the resulting multitude of meanings and to demand a variety of connotative planes to arrange their separate senses across, but it ultimately leads to a richer idea of the original aim or the intended object, as the potential for interpretation can be attributed to it.

Reader, attend!  whether thy soul

| colspan="2" | Reader, attend!  whether thy soul

Soars Fancy's flights beyond the pole,

Or darkling grubs in this earthly hole,

| colspan="2" | Soars Fancy's flights beyond the pole,

In low pursuit;

Know, prudent, cautious, self control

| colspan="2" | Or darkling grubs in this earthly hole,

Is wisdom's root.

Robert Burns, A Bard's Epitaph, [CPW, 220]

| width="5%"  |   || In low pursuit;

| colspan="2" | Know, prudent, cautious, self control

| width="5%"  |   || Is wisdom's root.

| colspan="2" align="right" | — Robert Burns, ''A Bard's Epitaph'', [CPW, 220]

One of the aims of this work as a whole is to explain the use of sign relations in the interpretation of complex texts, for instance, this sentence, this paragraph, this entire work, just to name a few of the most obvious examples among the many that are conceivable.  As the text I produce to explain the pragmatic theory of sign relations is itself just a sign in a sign relation to which the theory is intended to apply, the encounter with self reference, in both the senses of a self referent text and a self referent writer, cannot be avoided.  Among the questions that this encounter brings in its train are the issues of self indicating signs, texts, and interpreters, bringing the following topics to a head:

One of the aims of this work as a whole is to explain the use of sign relations in the interpretation of complex texts, for instance, this sentence, this paragraph, this entire work, just to name a few of the most obvious examples among the many that are conceivable.  As the text I produce to explain the pragmatic theory of sign relations is itself just a sign in a sign relation to which the theory is intended to apply, the encounter with self reference, in both the senses of a self referent text and a self referent writer, cannot be avoided.  Among the questions that this encounter brings in its train are the issues of self indicating signs, texts, and interpreters, bringing the following topics to a head:

1. "Indexical signs" are signs that indicate their own interpretive context.

# '''Indexical signs''' are signs that indicate their own interpretive context.

 

# '''Reflexive signs''' are signs that indicate themselves or their issuer.

2. "Reflexive signs" are signs that indicate themselves or their issuer.

# '''Recursive signs''' are signs that embody, enclose, or invoke themselves, that count themselves among their own parts or that include references to these parts within their own compositions, for instance, texts that incorporate references to their own headings, subtitles, or titles.

 

3. "Recursive signs" are signs that embody, enclose, or invoke themselves, that count themselves among their own parts or that include references to these parts within their own compositions, for instance, texts that incorporate references to their own headings, subtitles, or titles.

=====5.1.2.13. Ostensibly Recursive Texts=====

=====5.1.2.13. Ostensibly Recursive Texts=====