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By way of contrast, it is possible to identify a couple of dimensions along which the variety of clarification tasks can be classified into coherent associations among themselves and coordinated with each other.

By way of contrast, it is possible to identify a couple of dimensions along which the variety of clarification tasks can be classified into coherent associations among themselves and coordinated with each other.

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<li><p>One interpretation of the clarification task fixes the object and the class of signs that figure in as implied arguments of the operation, and thus it understands the task as a process of refining the quality of significance that stems from the individual signs, that is, developing a clearer interpretant for each sign given in the input class.  I refer to this brand of clarification as a ''modeling'' process, for several reasons:</p></li>

1.  One interpretation of the clarification task fixes the object and the class of signs that figure in as implied arguments of the operation, and thus it understands the task as a process of refining the quality of significance that stems from the individual signs, that is, developing a clearer interpretant for each sign given in the input class.  I refer to this brand of clarification as a ''modeling'' process, for several reasons:

a.  Speaking of "signs" in the generic sense, this mode of clarification process involves the finding or the making of "model" signs to serve as their clarified interpretants.  In other words, it takes in signs of an arbitrary quality of clarity and replaces them with their "canonical", "normal", or "standard" equivalents, ones that have an improved or optimal level of clarity. 

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b.  Speaking of signs in the sense of logical expressions, this mode of clarification process involves the detection, enumeration, and organization of their logical "models", that is, their logically satisfying interpretations.

<li><p>Speaking of signs in the generic sense, this mode of clarification process involves the finding or the making of model signs to serve as their clarified interpretants.  In other words, it takes in signs of an arbitrary quality of clarity and replaces them with their ''canonical'', ''normal'', or ''standard'' equivalents, ones that have an improved or optimal level of clarity.</p></li>

Overall, this brand of clarification can be viewed a purely cognitive, intellectual, syntactic, or rational process, one that goes on in the absence of any interaction with the object domain beyond the initial sample of signs.

<li><p>Speaking of signs in the sense of logical expressions, this mode of clarification process involves the detection, enumeration, and organization of their logical "models", that is, their logically satisfying interpretations.</p></li>

2. Another interpretation of the clarification task allows the object, or the information that the object avails of itself, to change over time.  It is not that agents always have a lot of choice in the matter of whether changes occur or what changes take place, but only that they do have the option to envision the possibility of changes in the objects or the data, and accordingly to contrive systematic ways of tracking these changes and accounting for the developments of objects and signs through time.  This rendition of the general requirement to "increase the clarity of the signs that the agent possesses about the object" comprehends the task of clarification as a matter of increasing the quantity of the agent's possessions in that regard, and it leads to a class of strategies in which agents proceed by gathering each new sign that they find of the object into the class of signs that forms their sample.

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<p>Overall, this brand of clarification can be viewed a purely cognitive, intellectual, syntactic, or rational process, one that goes on in the absence of any interaction with the object domain beyond the initial sample of signs.</p>

 

<li><p>Another interpretation of the clarification task allows the object, or the information that the object avails of itself, to change over time.  It is not that agents always have a lot of choice in the matter of whether changes occur or what changes take place, but only that they do have the option to envision the possibility of changes in the objects or the data, and accordingly to contrive systematic ways of tracking these changes and accounting for the developments of objects and signs through time.  This rendition of the general requirement to &ldquo;increase the clarity of the signs that the agent possesses about the object&rdquo; comprehends the task of clarification as a matter of increasing the quantity of the agent's possessions in that regard, and it leads to a class of strategies in which agents proceed by gathering each new sign that they find of the object into the class of signs that forms their sample.</p></li>

 

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