The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘On a New List of Categories’

Quote: 

… every comparison requires, besides the related thing, the ground, and the correlate, also a mediating representation which represents the relate to be a representation of the same correlate which this mediating representation itself represents. Such a mediating representation may be termed an interpretant, because it fulfils the office of an interpreter, who says that a foreigner says the same thing which he himself says.

Date: 
1867
References: 
W 2:53-54
Citation: 
‘Interpretant’ (pub. 12.08.13-20:34). 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-new-list-categories-9.
Posted: 
Aug 12, 2013, 20:34 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Aug 21, 2017, 21:21 by Mats Bergman