[An Early Preface to] The Fashion System 79terminology) and more generally intuition seemed difficult to disassociate
from a research project in its infancy.
27 The variants of continuity for example could be defined only through their
layout in the grid; so a clothing item, like the part of the body where it is
worn, is not linked to the mobility variant (syntagmatic definition).
28 notably for the assertion of types.
29 Perhaps we could be more economical with the object in hand, that
is with the ternary matrix, by developing the system towards two-term
routines.
30 What increases the chances of defects in the Σ [signified] is that it is a
classificatory activity; and classifying is (subjectively) an act of intense but
rapid (even voracious) assimilation; in all classification there is an element
of perhaps premature destruction of the object.