Frances to Theresa... Thanks for your kind comments and leads. They will help me in my reading of the available Peircean passages on the matter. For now, we might agree to disagree. The dispute may eventually boil down to just how broad pragmatism and semiotics should hold representamens and signs to be, even to limiting them for only rational human thought.
My preference incidentally is to communicate here in american english for the shear purpose of contact and exchange and archive, if you can allow it. Furthermore, you should not assume anything about me simply because my email address seems to be in some country. In any event, some messages recently posted to the list by me for other members may cover some points you raised. --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
