> stands to the real machine - electronic, mechanical, neural, or economic - much as geometry stands to a real object
in our terrestrial space.

>It takes as its subject matter the domain of *all possible machines*,
and is only secondarily interested if informed that some of them have not yet been made, either by Man or by Nature.

(1956) - *An Introduction to Cybernetics*

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>A is something, A, which brings something, B, its sign determined or created by it, into the same sort of correspondence with something, C, its , as that in which itself stands to C.

(1902)

In a sign is the describing (documenting) a ("mental model") abstracted from a real (object) by an (the interpretant).

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