Supplement: About this topic, meaning to claim objectivity fore something originally subjective, Peirce´s paper "How to make our ideas clear" is wishful thinking. But there is nothing wrong with that. It (good or bad for me/us) just depends, whose wishes count: The societie´s (system´s)
Dear Jean-Yves, dear Jerry, List,
Your approach, and Saussure´s and Ogden/Richard´s approaches to the concept of "meaning" is based on something quasi objective, which may be the structure of a system such as a culture, or a species, like humans. Or even something universal. This structure may
