Three Debts, Three Threats to Meaning

A few weeks ago I talked about the Triple debt model at the University of Waterloo where Jesse Hoey saw an interesting connection from the triple debt model to Peirce’s semiotic triadic model developed in the 19th century. Peirce's triadic semiotic model of meaning is a useful lens for thinking about the Triple Debt Model of Software Health. In brief, semiotics is the theory of how signs produce…