Frances in the Wings to Helmut and Listers--- Would it not be more categorially consistent with the Peircean theory of signs to hold that the inferred evaluated worth of a satisfactory and meaningful sign in the broadest way is judged only by its informative interpretant. This implies that informative representamens and referred objects are not themselves alone part of inferences nor assigned and aligned structurally with inferences, so that what is inferred or judged is the evaluated interpreted effect of the signed information. In other words, the interpretant as mainly a term or proposition or argument is transferred by the signer to the inference and judgement as mainly an abduction or induction or deduction. The informative "grammatic" division of signs is therefore initially preparatory to the evaluative "critical" division of signs and inferences, which in turn is eventually contributory to the evocative "rhetorical" or "methodeutical" division of signs. (The hierarchical sequencing of the phenomenally signed categories here in this topical subject is merely a psychical drama used to illustrate the observed issues as they might really occur in the relative situation of a sign and in the selective mesh of evolving nature.)
Note that if divisional information on the whole were forced broadly and generally to fit divisional evaluation on the inference, which information on the whole likely should not be, then across the board its representamens would perhaps mainly be qualitative results and objects would be factual cases and interpretants would be lawful rules.
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