ABSTRACT
All communication depends on signs, whether in the form of words, figures, marks, gestures, and so forth. This form of communication requires, in addition, the symbol that is more than a sign. Symbols and signs are alike tokens, forms, images, objects of vision, sounds, all kinds of things that are made also to indicate or stand for something other than themselves. The symbols have a considerable number of diverse social functions but they have a common quality that brings them all under our one category. They are devices for a special kind of communication. Unlike primarily denotative signs, such as ordinary words, they are not intended in the first instance to enable different people to have the same objects of reference. The intrinsic symbol serves a very particular kind of communication. It has a profound significance in human society that has never been really explored.
