t one entity as another entity, albeit clothed in a different
    costume.  That's not generative semiosis but, as Jon points out, it's a dyadic denotation.

ET: I think you are going to have to clarify 'representation' and 'relation'.  This is
    very difficult for someone who hasn't read Peirce.  It's also difficult because
    of the filiation of Firstness/Secondness with Thirdness ... and if someone
    views Thirdness in a nominalist manner rather than as a predicate process --
    well, that's a big 