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Quote from ‘Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VII’

Term: 
Symbol
Quote: 

The third and last kind of representations are symbols or general representations. They connote attributes and so connote them as to determine what they denote. To this class, belong all words and all conceptions. Most combinations of words are also symbols. A proposition, an argument, even a whole book may be, and should be, a single symbol.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1866). Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VII. MS [W] 129; MS [R] 356, 345, 919, 1571
Date: 
1866
References: 
W 1:468
Citation: 
‘Symbol’ (pub. 05.05.13-11:15). 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-lowell-lectures-logic-science-or-induction-and-hypothesis-lecture-vii.
Posted: 
May 05, 2013, 11:15 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin