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Old 08-02-2003, 10:32 AM   #10 (permalink)
Moonduck
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To return to one aspect of the origninal post, neither signs nor symbols have meaning outside their context. A necklace that symbolizes your grandmother is just a necklace to anyone else that does not know its' history.

Signs and symbols are both vehicles of information transfer, thus language of a sort. They just accomplish the transfer differently.
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