The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Letters to Lady Welby’

Term: 
Sign
Quote: 

I define a Sign as anything which on the one hand is so determined by an Object and on the other hand so determines an idea in a person’s mind, that this latter determination, which I term the Interpretant of the sign, is thereby mediately determined by that Object. A sign, therefore, has a triadic relation to its Object and to its Interpretant.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). Letters to Lady Welby. MS [R] L463
Date: 
1908.12
References: 
CP 8.343
Citation: 
‘Sign’ (pub. 21.11.15-18:31). 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-48.
Posted: 
Nov 21, 2015, 18:31 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Sep 20, 2017, 15:51 by Mats Bergman