The signs appear as diacritical marks. These marks show us the difference in repetitions of individuals of the same kind. The changes of the forms through discontinuous transformations may be explained by structuralist semi-formalisms. These kinds of formalisms have become prevalent within the Western tradition. Thus we see that sturcturalism and semiotics are closely related and are dependent on the positing of the Process Being meta-level.
Structuralism studies the meta-constraints on the evolution of essences.
Semiotics looks at the pointing that occurs at the level of pure presence which cannot be seen until the level of process being has been revealed. But until the Process Being level has been identified all we see is the forms on the background of illusory continuity. What we do not realize is that those forms are composed of a content of signs, or indicators. The flow of the signs, and the discontinuous transformation of the forms only appears when the process substrata is identified. By the identification of the process substrata it became clear that we could talk about the transformation of essences through time and the embedding of eventities in timespace without resorting to frozen forms and illusory continuities that repressed the natural flowing and transforming of things.