The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘P of L’

Term: 
Legisign
Quote: 

...a sign which is of the nature of a general type, law, or habit, which I will call a legisign. Thus, the word ‘the’ occurs, on the average, twenty times on an English page (more or fewer times, according to the style), and all these are so many occurrences of one and the same word. In that sense a word is a ‘legisign.’ But a legisign can only exists in such occurrences, which I term its replicas; and each of these replicas is a suisign.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). P of L. MS [R] 800
Date: 
1903 [c.]
References: 
MS [R] 800:2
Editorial Annotations: 

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Citation: 
‘Legisign’ (pub. 13.03.18-12:27). 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-p-l.
Posted: 
Mar 13, 2018, 12:27 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Mar 13, 2018, 12:35 by Mats Bergman