Deaf Person

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    Who is so deaf or so blind as he
    That wilfully will neither hear nor see?
    16th century English proverb, collected in J. Heywood, Dialogue of Proverbs (1546)

    A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)