ABSTRACT
We are accustomed to approaching symbols as an archaeologist struggles to decipher documents in an unknown language…. We live with the handy prejudice that all one has to do is attach the meaning to the thing,… join the semantic significations to the hieroglyphics, in order to pride oneself on one’s success in the act of deciphering, But all this process really accomplishes is to convert one system of symbols into another, which then in turn becomes accountable for its secret,
