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Peirce's semiotic triad classifies signs into icons, indices, and symbols

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Is it true that Peirce's semiotic triad classifies signs into icons, indices, and symbols?

Yes. Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic theory famously classifies signs into icons, indices, and symbols based on how they denote their objects.

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Wikipedia: Charles Sanders Peirce
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Wikipedia: Charles Sanders Peirce. (n.d.). Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sanders_Peirce

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Peirce ’s Theory of Signs
It references Peirce's famous division of signs into icons, indexes, and symbols.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Peirce ’s Theory of Signs. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-semiotics/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Peirce ’s Deductive Logic
It mentions Peirce's classification of signs as being symbols, indices, and icons.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Peirce ’s Deductive Logic. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce-logic/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Charles Sanders Peirce
It confirms that signs are icons, indices, or symbols.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Charles Sanders Peirce. (n.d.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/

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