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of other signifiers (as its own interpretants) which are included as tokens (and which, in the model, constitute other lexemes).
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The configuration of the meaning of the lexeme is given by the multiplicity of its links with several 'tokens', each of which becomes, in its turn, a type B. Type B is the patriarch of a new configuration which includes many other lexemes as tokens; some of these lexemes were also tokens of type A. Thus type B can actually take type A as one among its own tokens.
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"The over-all structure of the complete memory forms an enormous aggregation of planes, each consisting entirely of token nodes except for its 'head' node" (Quillian, p. 327).
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This model therefore anticipates the definition of every sign, thanks to its interconnection with the universe of all other signs that function as interpretants, each of which is ready to become the sign interpreted by all the others: the model, in its complexity, is based upon a process of unlimited semiosis. Starting with a sign that is considered as a 'type', one can retraverse, from the center to the extreme periphery, the entire universe of cultural units. Each of these can in turn become the center and generate infinite peripheries.
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13. See Eco, A Theory . . ., section 3.1.2.

 
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