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<jats:p>One aspect of theoretical thought is the position, sentiment or temperament chosen by the thinker, one that guides the thinker’s thought onward to new avenues. A “flat ontology” is proposed as one such possibility for semioticians, one that would take a nonhierarchical field of diversity as its basic ontological stance. In light of this flat ontology - which can be seen as a view on semiosphere -, two issues are briefly explored: reductionism vs. holism, and three models of relationship: self-actional, interactional, and transactional</jats:p>