A ''sort'' of signs is more formally known as an ''equivalence class'' (EC). There are in general many sorts of sorts of signs that we might wish to consider in this inquiry, but let's begin with the sort of signs all of whose members denote the same object as their referent, a sort of signs to be henceforth referred to as a ''referential equivalence class'' (REC). | A ''sort'' of signs is more formally known as an ''equivalence class'' (EC). There are in general many sorts of sorts of signs that we might wish to consider in this inquiry, but let's begin with the sort of signs all of whose members denote the same object as their referent, a sort of signs to be henceforth referred to as a ''referential equivalence class'' (REC). |