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===The Meaning of Meaning===
[[File:Semiotic Triangle.png|thumb|right|alt=An equilateral triangle is labelled with Symbol to the left, Object to the right, and Thought or Reference to the top apex. The base line is dotted to signify the implied relationship between the Symbol and Object is only achieved through the Thought or Reference of the interpreter.|The Semiotic Triangle of Reference, figure taken from page 11 of The Meaning of Meaning.]]
British linguists C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards
which draws on Peirce's Semiotics
The Symbol has a 1:1 relationship with the thoughts, but those Thoughts or Reference may refer to one or more objects.
This is an illustrates the difference between an arithmetical function, which has one return value, and that of a programming language which, due to its conditional processing quality, may have one of several replies.
Ogden and Richards highlighted the symbolic nature of speech: "Words, as everyone now knows, 'mean' nothing by themselves, although the belief that the did, ..., was once equally universal" (pp.9-10)
===Speech Act Theory===
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