The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘A Sketch of Logical Critics’

Term: 
Icon
Quote: 

… I had observed that the most frequently useful division of signs is by trichotomy into firstly Likenesses, or, as I prefer to say, Icons, which serve to represent their objects only in so far as they resemble them in themselves; secondly, Indices, which represent their objects independently of any resemblance to them, only by virtue of real connections with them, and thirdly Symbols, which represent their objects, independently alike of any resemblance or any real connection, because dispositions or factitious habits of their interpreters insure their being so understood.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1911 [c.]). A Sketch of Logical Critics. MS [R] 675
Date: 
1909
References: 
EP 2:460-461
Citation: 
‘Icon’ (pub. 28.04.13-20:09). 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-sketch-logical-critics-4.
Posted: 
Apr 28, 2013, 20:09 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin