Sentence examples for index icon from inspiring English sources

In May the Vanguard Group announced it was dumping stock index icon Standard & Poor's for five of its funds.

It will save the page you were last on in Safari, but forces clicking on the index icon to navigate between the 9 pages in its landing screen.

The resulting symbol was both an index and an icon, in Peirce's semiotics, adopted by Neurath's American intellectual ally and encyclopedia co-editor, Charles Morris Luptonn 1986).

"It can manifest as an image that communicates something occult ('hidden') via icon, index, or symbol; an arrangement of objects that reveals insight into a situation; a spell that alters the world; or a change in someone's ability or behavior.

Additionally, since that sign has an object it can be classified as either an icon, an index, or a symbol.

To try to capture this, Peirce experimented with some additional terminology and types of icon and index.

This is a trichotomy with which we are already familiar from the early account, and indeed, the examples of icons, indices, and symbols are largely the same as before: icons are portraits and paintings, indices are natural and causal signs, symbols are words and so on.

They appear in that order, for example, in his division of the modalities into possibility, actuality, and necessity; in his division of signs into icons, indexes, and symbols; in the division of symbols into terms, propositions, and arguments; and in his division of arguments into abductions, inductions, and deductions.

This, then, is the very first outing for Peirce's famous division of signs into Icons, Indexes, and Symbols.

Signs are icons, indices (also called "semes"), or symbols (sometimes called "tokens"), accordingly as they derive their significance from resemblance to their objects, a real relation (for example, of causation) with their objects, or are connected only by convention to their objects, respectively.

Signs vary in the way they relate to their referents and are classified as icons, indices or true symbols.