The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Logic of the Sciences’

Term: 
Copy [in Semeiotic]
Quote: 

… I must call your attention to the differences there are in the manner in which different representations stand for their objects. In the first place there are likenesses or copies - such as statues, pictures, emblems, hieroglyphics, and the like. Such representations stand for their objects only so far as they have an actual resemblance to them - that is agree with them in some characters. The peculiarity of such representations is that they do not determine their objects - they stand for anything more or less; for they stand for whatever they resemble and they resemble everything more or less.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1865). Logic of the Sciences. MS [W] 113; MS [R] 769, 734, 729, 921, 922, 728, S 66
Date: 
1865
References: 
W 1:328
Citation: 
‘Copy [in Semeiotic]’ (pub. 05.05.13-18:51). 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-logic-sciences-4.
Posted: 
May 05, 2013, 18:51 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin