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====7.1.8. Duties to Purpose====
====7.1.8. Duties to Purpose====
Considered with respect to the preferential standards or canons of value that they embody, each of the sign relations A or B does little more than uphold the distinctions and equalities of its semantic partition. In more complex sign relations one expects to find additional structure within the SEC's, refinements of value that reflect a measure of how well various elements represent their class. A distinguished subset of a SEC that represents its meaning in a recognizably felicitous manner is called a "canonical subset", and its elements are called "canonical forms".
In the order of empirical discovery, as it usually unfolds in complex developments, it often happens that one can gather together a selection of prototypical forms with "nice" properties long before one can articulate a compact set of standards or a definite program of rules that determines its extra measure of felicity. This makes it convenient to speak of the special subsets themselves as constituting the "canons" of their SEC's. Since there are no further differentiations of value within the SEC's of A and B, these examples are tantamount to improper cases that leave each SEC a canon unto itself.
It is obvious that I have loaded this discussion with a lot of excess language, illustrated in a degenerate fashion by the examples presented so far, but all of it is intended to find good use as the sign relations and sign processes become more complex.
===7.2. Computational Design Philosophy===
===7.2. Computational Design Philosophy===