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Peirce's Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation Jappy, Tony. "References." Peirce’s Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation: Rhetoric, Interpretation and Hexadic Semiosis. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 202–206. Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 1 Oct. 2021. <>. Downloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, www.bloomsburycollections.com, 1 October 2021, 01:50 UTC. Copyright © Tony Jappy 2017. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence. References Primary Sources Peirce, Charles S. (1931–1958), Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, 8 Volumes, Hartshorne, Charles, Paul Weiss and Arthur W. Burks (eds.), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Peirce Charles S. ([1940] 2011), Philosophical Writings of Peirce, Buchler, J. (ed.), New York: Dover. Peirce, Charles S. 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