ABSTRACT
In our theoretical exposition on the development of symbolization, we emphasized the genetic primordiality of “natural symbols,” that is, vehicles formed in international, gestural, and other media, which manifestly express or depict dynamic aspects of the meanings they represent. Symbol formation, we maintained, originates during a stage in which the pattern forged into a symbolic vehicle and the material shaped into an object of reference are so closely linked that the delation obtaining between them is one of tangible, perceptible similarity.
