The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Essays’

Term: 
Sign
Quote: 

By a sign I mean anything whatever, real or fictile, which is capable of a sensible form, is applicable to something other than itself, that is already known, and that is capable of being so interpreted in another sign which I call its Interpretant as to communicate something that may not have been previously known about its Object. There is thus a triadic relation between any Sign, an Object, and an Interpretant.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1910). Essays. MS [R] 654
Date: 
1910
References: 
MS [R] 654:7
Citation: 
‘Sign’ (pub. 25.11.15-02:58). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-essays.
Posted: 
Nov 25, 2015, 02:58 by Mats Bergman