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  1. Linguistic As defined by the originator of the word, Charles S. Peirce in the article "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmatism", first published in The Monist, volume xvi, 492–546, 1906 (This can probably be found easier in Collected Papers of Charles Samuel Peirce (Macintosh) volume 4.530-572, Charles Sanders Peirce, edited by: Charles Hartshorne, Paul Weiss, Arthur W. Burks, Theommes Press, 1997, hardcover in 8 volumes bound as 7, 3749 pages, ISBN 1855065568, earlier editions were published by Harvard and Cambridge University Presses): "By a Seme I should mean anything which serves for any purpose as a substitute for an object of which it is, in some sense, a representation or sign."

See semeiotic semantics, and semiotics.

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