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can be generated from Sijk,^ following the Peircean selection rule as shown

in Table 10.5 (see Section 6.6.3 for more detail).

In the original QMS (Section 6.6.3), the numerical values of indexes

i, j, and k, were confined to 1, 2 and 3. To generate the representamen-less

sign, which, as already alluded to above, would be the logical extension

of the interpretant-less and object-less signs that Peirce already discussed

[98], it is necessary only to extend the numerical range of the indexes, i, j,

and k to include the zero, 0, so that now the subscripts, i, j, and k, can

assume the values of 0, 1, 2, or 3. Since 1, 2, and 3 refer to Firstness,

Secondness, and Thirdness, respectively (see the top row of Table 10.6),

it would be logical to infer that there exists a new category to which the

number 0 belongs. I elected to call this category the “Zeroness”.

Furthermore, I suggest that Zeroness is closely related to the Dao, the

Ineffable, the Nameless, the Unknowable, and the Zero of P. Rowlands

who has mathematically derived everything from zero [404].

Table 10.5 The ten classes of signs defined by Peirce [98, p. 46] and symbolized in the

quark model of signs discussed in Section 6.6.

Note: Each one of the ten signs can be represented as Sijk with the subscripts, i, j, and k, ranging from

1 to 3, while obeying the Peircean selection rule defined above.

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