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[[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 wrote The Meaning of Meaning <ref name="MoM">[http://courses.media.mit.edu/2004spring/mas966/Ogden%20Richards%201923.pdf The Meaning of Meaning]</ref> in 1923,
which draws on Peirce's Semiotics and illustrates
The Symbol, bottom left corner, implies the referent Object, bottom right, through
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.
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