The Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis

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“Sebeok delineates three interconnected levels of modeling: primary (PMS), secondary (SMS), and tertiary (TMS), which correspond roughly to Peirce's categories of firstness, secondness, and thirdness [28].”

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“According to the extensionality principle in MST, a virtual museum experience is often initially an iconic simulation (primary level) before it becomes indicative or symbolic (secondary or tertiary).”

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“Crucially, MST categorizes the artificial forms specific to human activity into four general types: singularized forms, composite forms, cohesive forms, and connective forms (see Table A1) [28,41].”

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“MST's principles, such as the extensionality principle and the interconnectedness principle, highlight that higher-level (more abstract) modeling presupposes and builds upon lower-level modeling.”

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“According to MST, once modeling is involved, even if grounded in iconic resemblance, the model inherently deviates from the original referent (hence Sebeok's point that every act of modeling introduces noniconicity).”

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“As described in MST, the virtual museum operates as a complex modeling system.”

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“First, the museum itself is a vast semiotic system, and virtual museums are no exception.”

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“Unlike language, which MST identifies as a secondary modeling system, the virtual museum here can be viewed as a tertiary system (cf.Sebeok and Danesi 2000, 83-85 [28]).”