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index and symbol deals with the way signs are recognized. Another trichotomy of
qualisign, sinsign and legisign classify the signs according to the kind of act of signification
that is taking place. Qualisign, sinsign and legisign also correspond the levels of
comprehension: qualisign - the surroundings of the subject (phaneron), sinsign - that which
can be separated from overall context, and legisign - the relations between what has been
separated out. (I must confess that all this is very obscure and I didn't understand it
completely!)