Sinsign

Quick meaning: Sinsign is a noun meaning (Peircean semiotics) A sign that consists in a reaction/resistance, an actual singular thing or occurrence.

Meaning

(Peircean semiotics) A sign that consists in a reaction/resistance, an actual singular thing or occurrence.

Example Sentences

Rhematic Indexical Sinsign: As an object of raw experience, a burst of unplanned hollering is a rhematic indexical sinsign: it directs attention to the object which caused the presence of the sign […].

A Rhematic Indexical Legisign [e.g., a demonstrative pronoun] is any general type or law, however established, which requires each instance of it to be really affected by its Object in such a manner as merely to draw attention to that Object. Each Replica of it will be a Rhematic Indexical Sinsign of a peculiar kind. The Interpretant of a Rhematic Indexical Legisign represents it as an Iconic Legisign; and so it is, in a measure – but in a very small measure.

Word Forms

• sinsigns

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include iconic, indexical, sign, signifier, legisign, signified.

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