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drilling his compnay gives the order "Ground arms," the sound-
waves of his voice constitute a sign whose object is the captain's
will and whose interpretant is the muscular action of his men,
this action being substantially the same as if his will had been
able directly to control their muscles. Again, that general type
of order "Ground arms" whether given by an American
officer in Engligh to U.S. soldiers, or given by a Japanese
officer in Japanese to Japanese soldiers, (no longer therefore
any actual event but only a general type of possible events)
is one sign whose single object is whatever officer's will it may be that his soldiers
ground arms and whose single interpretant is the type of
action of the soldiers conformally to U.S. tactics if it be an American
order, but to Japanese tactics if it be a Japanese order is the