The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Letters to Lady Welby’

Term: 
Final Interpretant
Quote: 

My Final Interpretant is […] the effect the Sign would produce upon any mind upon which the circumstances should permit it to work out its full effect. [—] …the Final Interpretant is the one Interpretative result to which every Interpreter is destined to come if the Sign is sufficiently considered. [—] The Final Interpretant is that toward which the actual tends.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). Letters to Lady Welby. MS [R] L463
Date: 
1909
References: 
SS 110-1
Citation: 
‘Final Interpretant’ (pub. 16.08.13-18:04). 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-letters-lady-welby-33.
Posted: 
Aug 16, 2013, 18:04 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:55 by Commens Admin