"it is the connection of an indicative word to a symbolic word which makes an assertion"
"A sign is something that exists in replicas"
"To assert a proposition is to make oneself responsible for it, without any definite forfeit, it is true, but with a forfeit no smaller for being unnamed"
"This compulsion strikes him at a certain instant; and he remains under it forever after"
a Schelling point for those who seek one