esentations.

I do not see the connection between nominal thinking and representational thinking.
And I think that signs are very much representations of their objects.  But Peirce
does not say that semiotics is non-psychological -- he says only that logic, which
is the formal and normative branch of semiotics, is non-psychological.  By the way,
if one reads that note on &quot;Logic As Semiotics&quot; (CP 2.227) carefully, one sees that
the addition of &quot;normative&quot; is otiose, given the fact that Pe