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 | | In semiotical parlance, which is derived from Peirce, an icon is a sign in which the "thing" serving as expression is, in one or other respect, similar to, or shares properties with, another "thing", which serves as its content. |
 | | Thus, icons in the religious sense are not particularly good instances of icons in the semiotical sense, for they are, as Uspenskij has shown, subject to several conventions determining the kind of perspective which may be employed, and the kind of things and persons which may be represented in different parts of the picture. |
 | | In the case of an icon (contrary to the case of an index), "it simply happens that its qualities resemble those of that object, and excite analogous sensations in the mind for which it is a likeness" (2.299). |
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