Models as signs of the imaginary: Peirce, Pierce, Langer, and the non-discursive sign

Semiotica 2022 (245):63-78 (2022)
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Abstract

It is common for us to see models as exemplars of things that exist. Models, instead, are merely Peircean indexes, in that they only point to their objects, objects which may in themselves not exist. This is to say that these examples may only exist as thoughts that point to other thoughts or even ideas that point to objects that may not exist because they are paradoxical.

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