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Semiosis (noun) means (semiotics) Any process that involves signs, including how meaning is created.

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(semiotics) Any process that involves signs, including how meaning is created.
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Coined by Charles Sanders Peirce to describe a process that interprets signs as referring to their objects, as described in his theory of sign relations, or semiotics.

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"semiosis" (noun) means (semiotics) Any process that involves signs, including how meaning is created.
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