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    we have dictionaries and codified laws.  As Mishtu says -- this enables
    us to count.  But, this set of formally articulated rules is a limited
    semiosis -- very real, very functional -- anancastically operative.
    But it's not the full genuine operation of semiosis.

Well, I am not sure that we are using the words &quot;semantics&quot; and &quot;semiosis&quot;
the same way.  And I am told that Peirce did not use the term &quot;semantics&quot;.
I personally use &quot;semantics&quot; for the d