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The designations ''higher order'' and ''lower order'' are attributed to signs in a casual, local, and transitory way.  At this point they signify nothing beyond the occurrence in a sign relation of a pair of triples having the form shown in Table 38.
 
The designations ''higher order'' and ''lower order'' are attributed to signs in a casual, local, and transitory way.  At this point they signify nothing beyond the occurrence in a sign relation of a pair of triples having the form shown in Table 38.
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Table 38.  Sign Relation Containing a Higher Order Sign
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Object Sign Interpretant
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... s ...
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... ... ...
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s t ...
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This is all it takes to make <math>s\!</math> a lower order sign and <math>t\!</math> a higher order sign in relation to each other at the moments in question.  Whether a global ordering of a more generally justifiable sort can be constructed from an arbitrary series of such purely local impressions is another matter altogether.
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{| align="center" border="1" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:80%"
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|+ style="height:30px" | <math>\text{Table 38.} ~~ \text{Sign Relation Containing a Higher Order Sign}\!</math>
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|- style="height:40px; background:#f0f0ff"
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| <math>\text{Object}\!</math>
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| <math>\text{Sign}\!</math>
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| <math>\text{Interpretant}\!</math>
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| width="33%" |
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<math>\begin{matrix}
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\ldots
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\\
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\ldots
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\\
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\underline{\underline{s}}
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\end{matrix}</math>
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<math>\begin{matrix}
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\underline{\underline{s}}
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\\
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\ldots
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\\
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\underline{\underline{t}}
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\end{matrix}</math>
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| width="33%" |
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<math>\begin{matrix}
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\ldots
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\\
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\ldots
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\\
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\ldots
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\end{matrix}</math>
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|}
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This is all it takes to make <math>\underline{\underline{s}}\!</math> a lower order sign and <math>\underline{\underline{t}}\!</math> a higher order sign in relation to each other at the moments in question.  Whether a global ordering of a more generally justifiable sort can be constructed from an arbitrary series of such purely local impressions is another matter altogether.
    
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