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I thank Maria Teresa Beonio Brocchieri Fumagalli for her many useful suggestions. I also thank Andrea Tabarroni, Roberto Lambertini and Costantino Marmo for having discussed with me some passages of this paper, whose origin was a seminar on the medieval theory of signs, University of Bologna, Chair of Semiotics, Academic Year 1982–83.
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Eco, U. Meaning and denotation. Synthese 73, 549–568 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00484992
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