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An instance of <math>\text{Y}\!</math> using <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> is considered to be an objective event, the kind of happening to which all suitably placed observers can point, and adverting to an occurrence of <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> is more specific and less vague than resorting to instances of <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> as if being issued by anonymous sources. The situated sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> is a ''wider sign'' than <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> in the sense that it takes in a broader field of view on the interpretive situation and provides more information about the context of use. As to the reception of attributed remarks, the interpreter that can recognize signs of the form <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> is one that knows what it means to ''consider the source''.
An instance of <math>\text{Y}\!</math> using <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> is considered to be an objective event, the kind of happening to which all suitably placed observers can point, and adverting to an occurrence of <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> is more specific and less vague than resorting to instances of <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> as if being issued by anonymous sources. The situated sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> is a ''wider sign'' than <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> in the sense that it takes in a broader field of view on the interpretive situation and provides more information about the context of use. As to the reception of attributed remarks, the interpreter that can recognize signs of the form <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> is one that knows what it means to ''consider the source''.
It is best to read the superscripts on attributed signs as accentuations and integral parts of the quotation marks, taking <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \ldots {}^{\prime\prime\text{A}}\!</math> and <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \ldots {}^{\prime\prime\text{B}}\!</math> as variant inflections of <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \ldots {}^{\prime\prime}.\!</math> Thus, I can refer to the sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime\text{Y}}\!</math> just as I would refer to the sign <math>{}^{\backprime\backprime} \text{X} {}^{\prime\prime}\!</math> in the present informal context, without any additional marks of quotation.
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Taking a cue from this usage, the ordinary quotes that I use to mark salient relationships of signs and expressions with respect to the informal context can now be regarded as quotes that I myself, operating as a casual interpreter, tacitly index. Even without knowing the complete sign relation that I have in mind, the one that I presumably use to conduct this discussuion, the sign relation that "I" represents can nevertheless be partially formalized by means of a certain functional equation, namely, the equation between semantic functions: "..." = "..."I.
Taking a cue from this usage, the ordinary quotes that I use to mark salient relationships of signs and expressions with respect to the informal context can now be regarded as quotes that I myself, operating as a casual interpreter, tacitly index. Even without knowing the complete sign relation that I have in mind, the one that I presumably use to conduct this discussuion, the sign relation that "I" represents can nevertheless be partially formalized by means of a certain functional equation, namely, the equation between semantic functions: "..." = "..."I.