Signs, Symbols & Signification

Primes about how form carries meaning through sign relations: the signifier-signified duality, arbitrariness of convention, Peirce's icon-index-symbol trichotomy, iconicity and indexicality, markedness, and reflexive or sacred uses of symbol systems.

12 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.

• Arbitrariness of Symbolic Conventions — mixed-framed · crowded
• Archetype — mixed-structural · mid
• Iconicity — mixed-structural · crowded
• Icon–Index–Symbol Distinction — mixed-framed · crowded
• Indexicality — — · crowded
• Markedness — mixed-structural · crowded
• Meta-Symbolic Reflection — mixed-structural · crowded
• Modal Reasoning — structural · crowded
• Ornamentation — framed · distinctive
• Sacred — framed · distinctive
• Signifier–Signified Duality — mixed-framed · crowded
• Symbolic Representation — — · crowded