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Quote from ‘Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise’

Term: 
Symbol
Quote: 

A Genuine Sign is a Transuasional Sign, or Symbol, which is a sign which owes its significant virtue to a character which can only be realized by the aid of its Interpretant. Any utterance of speech is an example. If the sounds were originally in part iconic, in part indexical, those characters have long since lost their importance. The words only stand for the objects they do, and signify the qualities they do, because they will determine, in the mind of the auditor, corresponding signs.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise. MS [R] 425
Date: 
1902
References: 
CP 2.92
Citation: 
‘Symbol’ (pub. 05.05.13-11:38). 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-minute-logic-chapter-i-intended-characters-treatise-21.
Posted: 
May 05, 2013, 11:38 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin