The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Essays on Meaning. Preface’

Term: 
Object
Quote: 

By the Object of a Sign, as the term is used by the present writer, is meant that to which the Sign applies but which it does not express otherwise than through some other Sign, or through collateral experience, or through an indication of how the interpreter of it may proceed in order to identify it.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1909). Essays on Meaning. Preface. MS [R] 640
Date: 
1909
References: 
MS [R] 640:9
Citation: 
‘Object’ (pub. 25.11.15-01:37). 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-meaning-preface-1.
Posted: 
Nov 25, 2015, 01:37 by Mats Bergman