Comments on Figure 9 Transforming into figures 3 and 4; that is, a Triadic Set of Relations Transforming into a SIGN

Peirce developed an analysis of reality that defined reality – all forms of reality, whether chemical, biological or social as existing in Signs. A sign is a spatiotemporal reality, material or conceptual, that exists in relations with other signs, as in “I use the word “Sign” in the widest sense for any medium for the communication or extension of a From (or feature). Being medium, it is determined by something, called its Object, and determines something, called its Interpretant or Interpretand” (Peirce 1977:196). This establishes the nature of the sign as a triad of interactions or relations.