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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=semiotics">semiotics</a>, a <b>modality</b> is a particular way in which <a href="page.php?w=information">information</a> is to be <a href="page.php?w=Encode_%28semiotics%29">encoded</a> for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of <a href="page.php?w=sign_%28semiotics%29">sign</a> and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text, or genre. It is more closely associated with the semiotics of <a href="page.php?w=Charles_Sanders_Peirce">Charles Peirce</a> (1839-1914) than <a href="page.php?w=Ferdinand_de_Saussure">Ferdinand de Saussure</a></p><p>
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