erefore a particular
manner of thinking.  Pragmatist philosophers hold that all thought
takes place in &quot;signs&quot;, which is the word they use for the most
general class of signals, messages, symbolic expressions, texts,
and so on that might be imagined.  Even ideas and concepts are
held to be a special class of signs, namely, internal states
of the thinking agent that result from the interpretation of
external signs.  The subsumption of inquiry within reasoning
in general and the inclusion of thinkin