Comments on Brian Kemple’s Essay (2020) "Signs and Reality‪"‬

In the essay, titled "Signs and Reality: An advocation for semiotic realism", Brian Kemple Ph.D. engages the works of Thomas Aquinas (Reality, volume 1, (2020) 75-123).
Yes, Aquinas discusses things and how things influence the mind. There is a difference.
Perhaps, because of this difference, some philosophers think that things are real and their influence is not. Things are material. Their significance is not material.
Kemple says, "Au contraire."
Signs, the conveyance of signficance, are real, recognizable and impactful. They cannot be ignored. They allow reference, intelligibility, as well as a judgment that weighs the two.
Even more curious, Thomas Aquinas writes about this. Kemple's argument examines texts. He considers technical terms. He does so in the defense of semiotic realism.
Matthew Minerd pens a response to Kemple's article, titled "The Analogy of Res-ality", playing on the Latin word, "res", translated as "thing" (Reality, vol. 1, (2020) 124-145). Minerd suggests that a consideration of (what Latins call) "signa practica" would assist Kemple's argument.
Does that cover "practice of signs" or "practical signs"?
If so, then these comments add value to Kemple's argument by offering diagrams, constructed from category-based nested forms, that help the reader to visualize scholastic terminology. The Latin terms, "species impressa", "species expressa" and "species intelligibilis" are actualities in a three-level interscope. They are also sign-objects for interventional, specifying and exemplar signs.
Yes, the category-based nested form offers a practical method of constructing signs.
It allows the inquirer to see the sign as a structure built with simpler triadic relations.
On top of that, there is the matter of telling a narrative about the realness of signs. These comments offer a narrative that draws many of Kemple's discursive threads into a disquieting story, told by an interior decorator, about decor that defies the label that defines the room.