1. It is what defines sign, object, and interpretant in general. 2. One of Peirce's distinctions was that of distinguishing an interpretant from an interpreter. 3. Here one forms an interpretant expressing a meaning or ramification of the sign about the object. 4. The dynamic interpretant is an actuality. 5. The final interpretant is a kind of norm or necessity unaffected by actual trends of opinion or interpretation. 6. For example, one way to approach the concept of an interpretant is to think of a psycholinguistic process. 7. The immediate interpretant is a quality of impression which a sign is fitted to produce, a special potentiality. 8. That essentially triadic process is logically structured to perpetuate itself and is what defines sign, object, and interpretant . 9. The connection that a sign makes to an interpretant is here referred to as its " connotation ". 10. The interpretant depends likewise on both the sign and the object an object determines a sign to determine an interpretant.
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