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the identity. On Wednesday I see a man and I say, “That
is the same man I saw on Tuesday, and consequently is
the same I saw on Monday.” There is a recognition of
triadic identity; but it is only brought about as a
reasoning conclusion from two premisses, which is itself a
triadic relation. If I see two men at once, I cannot by any such
direct experience identify both of them with a man
I saw before. I can only identify them if I regard them, not
as the very same, but as two different manifestations
of the same man. But the idea of manifestation is the idea of a sign.
Now a sign is something, A, which signifies denotes some fact or object, B,
to some interpretant thought, C.

It is interesting to remark that while a graph with
three tails cannot be made out of graphs each with
two or one tail, yet combinations of graphs

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the identity. On Wednesday I see a man and I say, “That
is the same man I saw on Tuesday, and consequently is
the same I saw on Monday.” There is a recognition of
triadic identity; but it is only brought about as a
reasoning conclusion from two premisses, which is itself a
triadic relation. If I see two men at once, I cannot by any such
direct experience identify both of them with a man
I saw before. I can only identify them if I regard them, not
as the very same, but as two different manifestations
of the same man. But the idea of manifestation is the idea of a sign.
Now a sign is something, A, which signifies denotes some fact or object, B,
to some interpretant thought, C.

It is interesting to remark that while a graph with
three tails cannot be made out of graphs each with
two or one tail, yet combinations of graphs