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To interpret it all, to assess significance, to anticipate what may transpire, and to grasp what's taking place, we postulate labels framing how we attend to forces and processes of one sort or another at work in the sphere of actuality within which we live—God, or the gods, Fate, Destiny, the Stars, natural substances and forces, gravitation and contagion, viruses and virtues, and character, culture, class, and on and on. Oh yes, technology, too.

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In postulating a label to frame attention, we create something more powerful than a mere sign. We actually identify a collection of meaningful matters, ones worthy of attention. Hence, the label must serve as a signifier that points out things of significance. Many problems of usage arise when familiarity whittles the signifier down to a sign, for a sign like <i>technology</i> actually serves in many different ways as a signifier, leading to much confusion in intensive use:l the sign gloms together many different signifiers.

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 To interpret it all, to assess significance, to anticipate what may transpire, and to grasp what's taking place, we postulate labels framing how we attend to forces and processes of one sort or another at work in the sphere of actuality within which we live—God, or the gods, Fate, Destiny, the Stars, natural substances and forces, gravitation and contagion, viruses and virtues, and character, culture, class, and on and on. Oh yes, technology, too.
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+In postulating a label to frame attention, we create something more powerful than a mere sign. We actually identify a collection of meaningful matters, ones worthy of attention. Hence, the label must serve as a signifier that points out things of significance. Many problems of usage arise when familiarity whittles the signifier down to a sign, for a sign like <i>technology</i> actually serves in many different ways as a signifier, leading to much confusion in intensive use:l the sign gloms together many different signifiers.