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sinsign, n. Philos. and Ling.|ˈsɪnsaɪn|
[f. single a. or L. sin(gulum one + sign n.]
A term used by C. S. Peirce (1839–1914) to designate a sign which is a thing (e.g. a diagram or weathercock) or an event (e.g. a cry). Later, taken to be a symbol that is an individual instance or ‘token’, rather than a universal or ‘type’. Cf. *legisign n.
a1914C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1932) II. ii. ii. 142 A Sinsign..is an actual existent thing or event which is a sign. It can only be so through its qualities; so that it involves a qualisign. Ibid. 148 Each Replica of it will be a Dicent Sinsign of a peculiar kind. 1934Mind XLIII. 496 Peirce's distinction between his sinsign or token and his legisign or type is a distinction depending purely upon the nature of the sign itself. 1966[see qualisign n.]. 1972T. Todorov in Screen (1973) Spring/Summer 22 The total number of words in a text equals the number of tokens or sinsigns; the amount of different words give us the number of types or legisigns. |