1.

The differentiation between red and green is a special case of differentiation. Actual differentiations denote the unmarked space with a not, i.e. red / not red. Each distinction determines a room in which the distinction is made. If I make a distinction between red and green, I refer, for example, to a set of red and green spheres, so that all non-red spheres are green - or are not considered.

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2.

"Coding" in this use is a mentalistic metaphor in which signs are related to mental states or contents. An actual code is a table in which character bodies from one alphabet are assigned to character bodies of another alphabet.

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3.

I call special deviations homonym and synonym.

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4.

Since F. de Saussure, the two sides of the relation of denomination are called signifier (also signifié, 'designated', sign content) and signifier (also signifiant, 'designating', 'designation', external sign form).

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5.

The situation was quite different for Adam, who - if Mark Twain is right - came into a world still without language and in competition with Eve had to name all the things he discovered before her.

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