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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Series editor's preface -- List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Outline of the book -- Chapter 2 Signs -- The tree and the weathervane -- Peirce's theory of signs -- Icons in architecture -- Chapter 3 Sign-Vehicles -- Icon -- Index -- Symbol -- Ten classes of signs -- First, Second, Third -- Breaking the rules -- The number three -- Chapter 4 Indexical architecture -- A return to the physical -- Signs and facts -- Translating indexical signs to symbols -- Diagrammatic proof -- Chapter 5 Abduction in architecture -- Abduction in the smart city -- Forensic architecture -- Indefinite inference -- Design as abduction -- Abduction versus interpretation -- Chapter 6 Nature semiotics -- Nature's signs -- Pansemiotics -- Geosemiotics -- The posthuman and speculative realism -- Chapter 7 Pragmatism -- Pragmatism and positivism -- Verification -- The power of practice -- Radicalising Peirce -- Glossary -- Further reading -- References -- Index.