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Merrell, Floyd, date.

Signs becoming signs : our perfusive, pervasive universe / Floyd Merrell.

p. cm. — (Advances in semiotics)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-253-33746-1 (alk. paper)

I. Semiotics. 2. Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914—

Contributions in semiotics. I. Title. II. Series.

P99.M42 1991

401’.41—dc20

90-49160

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