| 1. | It is what defines sign, object, and interpretant in general.
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| 2. | One of Peirce's distinctions was that of distinguishing an interpretant from an interpreter.
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| 3. | Here one forms an interpretant expressing a meaning or ramification of the sign about the object.
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| 4. | The dynamic interpretant is an actuality.
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| 5. | The final interpretant is a kind of norm or necessity unaffected by actual trends of opinion or interpretation.
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| 6. | For example, one way to approach the concept of an interpretant is to think of a psycholinguistic process.
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| 7. | The immediate interpretant is a quality of impression which a sign is fitted to produce, a special potentiality.
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| 8. | That essentially triadic process is logically structured to perpetuate itself and is what defines sign, object, and interpretant.
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| 9. | The connection that a sign makes to an interpretant is here referred to as its " connotation ".
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| 10. | The interpretant depends likewise on both the sign and the object an object determines a sign to determine an interpretant.
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