Peirce and Representation

In Peirce's Semiotic, a Sign is part of a triadic structure entailing Sign, Object, and Interpretant. The Sign represents the Object, and the Interpretant reads the Sign as a conveyance of that Object. Hence, the process of interpretation entails what Derrida calls the 'effacement' of the Sign, because the role of the Sign is never more a medium between Object and Interpretant, the more transparent, the more effective. But this construal of the process of Interpretation also effaces a structure that is essential to it, namely that of the representational relation between Sign and Object. On the Evolvemental analysis, the Object precedes the representation of it, an ordering from which Peirce's Semiotic abstracts.