Oh semiotics can get you there but, much like binary in computing, you can’t stop at a base level but must approach in a bottom up / top down simultaneously. Pierce’s Theory of Signs acts as a top-down hierarchical framework from which to then build up from primitives. But the theory of signs along is not enough to build a system, much as how boolean logic is a top-down framework upon a dual of 0/1 which can be built up from but is not enough in itself to do much. So inbetween the two you have subsystems.

Oh semiotics can get you there but, much like binary in computing, you can’t stop at a base level but must approach in a bottom up / top down simultaneously.

Pierce’s Theory of Signs acts as a top-down hierarchical framework from which to then build up from primitives.

But the theory of signs along is not enough to build a system, much as how boolean logic is a top-down framework upon a dual of 0/1 which can be built up from but is not enough in itself to do much.

So inbetween the two you have subsystems.

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