Likeness

Keyword: Likeness


Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1896). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 13

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-13; 7-12, with an alternative p. 8 of another draft.
The principal questions raised are these: Why mathematics always deals with a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/08/2013
Quote from "Short Logic"

An icon is a sign which stands for its object because as a thing perceived it excites an idea naturally allied to the idea that object would excite. Most icons, if not all, are likenesses...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "A Sketch of Logical Critics"

… 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...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Grand Logic 1893: The Art of Reasoning. Chapter II. What is a Sign?"

The likeness has no dynamical connection with the object it represents; it simply happens that its qualities resemble those of that object, and excite analogous sensations...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "On a New List of Categories"

A reference to a ground may also be such that it cannot be prescinded from a reference to an interpretant. In this case it may be termed an imputed quality. If the reference of a relate...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VII"

… I must call your attention to the differences there are in the manner in which different representations stand for their objects. In the first place there are likenesses or copies - such as ...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture IX"

A likeness represents its object by agreeing with it in some particular. [—] Scientifically speaking, a likeness is a representation grounded...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Logic Chapter I"

… the relation of a repraesentamen to its object (correlate) may be a real relation and, then, either an agreement or a difference, or it may be an ideal r[elati]on or one from which the reference...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "A Treatise on Metaphysics [W]"

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...