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One of the names used by Charles S. Peirce for thirdness.

Triple terminological, having parts, aspects, or levels. Peirce's definition of a sign as a relationship between a sign vehicle, an object, an interpreter, described as triadic, while Ferdinand de Saussure's is a relationship between signifier and signified and is...

Unlike a dichotomy, which is a process of dividing something in two or the result of this process, a trichotomy is a process of dividing something into three or the result of this process (the trinity division or classification). Saussure's approach to the study of...

Trop is a figure of speech. A word or utterance is used in a figurative (not literal) sense. Metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche are among the most common tropes. Metaphor is sometimes used in a very broad sense as a synonym for trope (ie, a term covering all figures of...

Tuism is a term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote a characteristic concept of thinking. One cannot improve one's thinking on one's own definition: "The doctrine that all thinking is addressed to another person or to a future Self as another person" (W 1: XXIX)....

Tychism is a term used by Charles S. Peirce to denote the doctrine of absolute or objective chance (chance).

A type is a sign considered as an infinitely regenerating unit or function; A token, on the other hand, is an individual replication or example of a sign or more precisely a legisign (sign as a rule). The type itself is legisign, an indefinitely recoverable form....

Typology is a term synonymous with classification. The writings of semioticians related to the typology of signs. Perhaps the simplest of these is the classification of signs into natural and conventional. On the other hand, arguably the most complex classification is...