The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra’

Term: 
Symbol
Quote: 

Every symbol is an ens rationis, because it consists in a habit, in a regularity; now every regularity consists in the future conditional occurrence of facts not themselves that regularity.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra. MS [R] 492
Date: 
1903 [c.]
References: 
CP 4.464
Citation: 
‘Symbol’ (pub. 05.05.13-11:42). 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-logical-tracts-no-2-existential-graphs-eulers-diagrams-and-logical-algebra-7.
Posted: 
May 05, 2013, 11:42 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 02, 2016, 15:51 by Mats Bergman