The face, in its nudity and defenselessness, signifies: "Do not kill me".
Zwingli, on the other hand, convinced that the word "is" has the force of "signifies," did not maintain a "real" presence but simply the divine presence of Christ or his presence to the believer by the power of the Holy Spirit, as signified by the elements.
To a first approximation, then, we can say that what a term secondarily signifies is exactly what it signifies but does not primarily signify.
As a result, the ultimate significatum of this chain must be something that is signified but does not signify, and which has the same logical structure as the mental proposition — i.e., it must be a proposition in re (fols. 17vb-18ra; see also ch. de priori, fol. 47va).
Signifying one thing does not involve signifying an individual who is a member of a kind, but simply one kind.
Conversely, we did not detect hPrP90-231 aggregates not colocalized with DiI, signifying that hPrP90-231 does not diffuse through the plasma membrane to aggregate into the cytosol.
8B4-immunoreactive signal in hPrP90-231-treated cells was not changed with respect to controls signifying that PrPC does not aggregate after hPrP90-231 internalization.
This work was the source of his so-called 'sign-theory', based on the idea that perceptions are signs or place-holders for what they signify, but do not resemble or copy them in any way.
He denied the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and following Cornelius Henrici Hoen, he agreed that the bread and wine of the institution signify and do not literally become the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Peirce's idea that a sign does not signify in all respects and has some particular signifying element is perhaps best made clear with an example.
