ABSTRACT
This chapter address, no attempt to deal with any problem of symbolic technique will be made, for even if a problem of this kind should be found that was suitable to the present occasion. But if we substitute in it regularity of causation for causation simply, then have something call semeiotic interpretation. To do so, however, one must first state in general what is to be understood by a 'discursive entity', irrespective of whether or not it happens to be playing a role in interpretation. Symbols and signs, evidently, may be either discursive or non-discursive, either verbal or, as one may say, 'real', if for the purposes of this paper agree to mean by 'real' simply 'non-discursive'. The means of vocal utterance are virtually always at disposal, but those of graphic or other utterance, less often. It is that among other distinctions possible among symbols, an indispensable one is that between indicative and quiddative symbols.
