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Quote from ‘Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III’

Term: 
Icon
Quote: 

… the Icon may undoubtedly be divided according to the categories; but the mere completeness of the notion of the icon does not imperatively call for any such division. For a pure icon does not draw any distinction between itself and its object. It represents whatever it may represent, and whatever it is like, it in so far is. It is an affair of suchness only.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III. MS [R] 308
Date: 
1903
References: 
CP 5.74
Citation: 
‘Icon’ (pub. 28.04.13-19:51). 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-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-iii-4.
Posted: 
Apr 28, 2013, 19:51 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin