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<div style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:5%"> Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive power, the sunflower would become a Representamen of the sun.

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Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive power, the sunflower would become a Representamen of the sun.

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Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive power, the sunflower would become a Representamen of the sun.&~~nbsp~~; (C.S. Peirce~~, “Syllabus” (c. 1902)~~, Collected Papers, CP 2.274).

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— C.S. Peirce, Collected Papers, CP 2.274

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In his picturesque illustration of a sign relation, along with his tracing of a corresponding sign process, or [[semiosis]], Peirce uses the technical term representamen for his concept of a sign, but the shorter word is precise enough, so long as one recognizes ~~that~~ its meaning in a particular theory of signs is given by a specific definition of what it means to be a sign.

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In his picturesque illustration of a sign relation, along with his tracing of a corresponding sign process, or semiosis, Peirce uses the technical term representamen for his concept of a sign, but the shorter word is precise enough, so long as one recognizes its meaning in a particular theory of signs is given by a specific definition of what it means to be a sign.

==Definition==

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[[Category:Peircean semiotics]]

[[Category:Pragmatics]]

[[Category:Relation theory]]

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