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Signs exhibit specificative causality insofar as they cause knowledge in the interpretant of this signified rather than that one. This causality can be either mental (within a cognitive interpretant, like man) or virtual (within a noncognitive interpretant, but ordered to future cognitive interpretation).

Objects are NOT things and whoever told you that is plain wrong and also a Modernist - John Deely, probably

"It is not only immoral but ridiculous to pretend, by your inordinate self-willing, that you are that for the sake of which all things ought to be willed...in our own little annunciations and passions, we can have some confidence that in our end is our beginning."

God's creation of the world was needless, but not irrational.

"There are wells, deep wells, dug in our hearts. Birds fly over them."

Wish this was more Eco rather than exemplar passages from other books. It's a bit jarring.

"The pinball machine and Hitler's rise share one common trait.... Evolution of the sort that moves forward on three wheels, namely Technology, Capital Investment, and Human Desire."

"And, to be blunt, fifty years spent thinking is a helluva lot more exhausting than five thousand years of living without using your brain, right?"