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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce Charles Sanders Peirce] devised the philosophy of Pragmatism, that things are defined by their effect, which is summarised in his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_maxim Pragmatic Maxim]
===Dyadic Semiology===
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_de_Saussure Ferdinand de Saussure] created the first synchronic model of language - how a language works at any one point in time.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_in_General_Linguistics#Syntagmatic_and_paradigmatic_relations the first synchronic model of language] - how a language works at any one point in time.
He described a dyadic sign at the heart of this Semiology.
Here, a ''signifier'', a written or spoken artefact, ''signifies'' a mental image.
There is an '''arbitrary''' link between what it said and its signified mental image.
 
===Triadic Semiotics===
Around the same time, but independently,
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