semantics assignment

     THE NATURE OF SYMBOLS AND REFERENTS Ok, so there are some important things to know about symbols and referents.
     1.) DEFINITION OF SYMBOL AND REFERENT The first is, that a symbol is an object that is being used by someone or something to refer to another object called the referent.
     For example, in a book, you have the word cow, and the word cow is then used to refer to some real cow out in the real world.
     Or you have a picture of a cow in a book, and its a picture of a cow named Daisey, with black and white spots, who lived on a particular farm, at a particular time, and here is this complete picture of Daisey.
     The picture is an object, and the ink on the paper is an object, and the picture is made of paper which is an object, and this compound object is being used to refer to the actual cow that existed in the real world.
     The referent also is an object, it too exists in the real world, just as the symbol does.
     Obviously, that's where milk comes from. Moooo! 2.) SYMBOLS AND REFERENTS ARE TWO DIFFERENT OBJECTS
     So the second most important thing to know about symbols and referents is that they are two different objects.
     And because they are two different objects they have two different quality sets, each one describing the object that the quality set belongs to.
     For example the picture of the cow is made of paper, made with ink, made with a photographic process, is basically two dimensional and exists in a book.
     That's a symbol, it has qualities and it is an object which exists.
     The referent is a real cow, its made out of skin and bones and blood and teeth and eats grass and goes moo!
     So you can see that that the two different objects have two different quality sets.