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Quote from ‘A Treatise on Metaphysics [W]’

Term: 
Copy [in Semeiotic]
Quote: 

The simplest kind of agreement of truth is a resemblance between the representation and its object. I call this verisimilitude, and the representation a copy.

Resemblance consists in a likeness, which is a sameness of predicates. Carried to the highest point, it would destroy itself by becoming identity. All real resemblance, therefore, has a limit.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1861-1862). A Treatise on Metaphysics [W]. MS [W] 70; MS [R] 920, 919
Date: 
1862
References: 
W 1:79
Citation: 
‘Copy [in Semeiotic]’ (pub. 05.05.13-18:27). 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-treatise-metaphysics-w.
Posted: 
May 05, 2013, 18:27 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin