Higher Order Sign Relations • 1 • https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2025/03/22/higher-order-sign-relations-1-a/ Higher Order Sign Relations • Introduction — When interpreters reflect on their use of signs they require an appropriate technical language in which to pursue their reflections. They need signs referring to sign relations, signs referring to elements and components of sign relations, and signs referring to properties and classes of sign relations. The orders of signs developing as reflection evolves can be organized under the heading of “higher order signs” and the reflective sign relations involving them can be referred to as “higher order sign relations”. Some years ago I was formatting my old dissertation proposal on Inquiry Driven Systems for the web when the subject of “signs about signs” came up on the Peirce List. It called to mind the part of my document on Higher Order Sign Relations, a technical piece needed to ground the general concept of Reflective Interpretive Frameworks, and the beginning of which is quoted above. Resources — Inquiry Driven Systems • https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Overview Reflective Interpretive Frameworks • https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_10#Reflective_I… Higher Order Sign Relations • https://oeis.org/wiki/Inquiry_Driven_Systems_%E2%80%A2_Part_12#Higher_Order… Survey of Inquiry Driven Systems • https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/02/28/survey-of-inquiry-driven-systems-… Survey of Semiotics, Semiosis, Sign Relations • https://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2024/01/26/survey-of-semiotics-semiosis-sign… Regards, Jon