Legisign

Keyword: Legisign


Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/03/2018
Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni"

A sign in itself may be an indefinite possibility, when I term as a Qualisign, or it may be an existent thing or event, when I term it a Sinsign (sin- is the sim...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/03/2018
Quote from "P of L"

…signs are divisible, first, according to their modes of being, as objects; secondly, according to the modes of their references to their objects; thirdly, according to the modes of their...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/03/2018
Quote from "P of L"

...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...

Manuscript | Posted 13/03/2018
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). P of L. MS [R] 800

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 2-6, 10; plus l p.
On the classification of signs.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/03/2016
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

A legisign is a general type which is significant because it may be embodied in instances which have noticeable relations adapting them to be signs of the very...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/01/2015
Quote from "Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, and the Reducibility of Fourthness [R]"

…in the first place a sign may, in its own firstness, either be a mere idea or quality of feeling, or it may be a ‘sinsign’, that is, an individual existent (and P. holds, with Hegel, that...

Manuscript | Posted 15/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, and the Reducibility of Fourthness [R]. MS [R] 914

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 5-8.
The nature of signs.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

As it is in itself, a sign is either of the nature of an appearance, when I call it a qualisign; or secondly, it is an individual object or event, when I call it a sinsign (the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined"

A Legisign is a law that is a Sign. This law is usually established by men. Every conventional sign is a legisign. It is not a single object, but a general...