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“My original formulation of “firstness,” that is, the claim that someone on the originary scene had to emit the sign first, albeit in a way that could not be recognized as such until it has circulated among the group, was very explicitly aimed at the problem posed by the assumption of the unanimity of sign issuance in Gans’s account of the scene”

— Adam Katz, The Contingency of the Hypothesis · Sep 13, 2023 · Bouvard Substack