Object

Keyword: Object


Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/08/2017
Quote from "Miscellaneous Fragments [R]"

the thing which by virtue of the representation is made a quasi-agent, that is, the Object represented…

Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/08/2017
Quote from "On the System of Existential Graphs Considered as an Instrument for the Investigation of Logic"

The Object of a Sign is its progenitor, its father.

Manuscript | Posted 24/08/2017
Peirce, Charles S. (1906 [c.]). On the System of Existential Graphs Considered as an Instrument for the Investigation of Logic. MS [R] 499(s)
Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/08/2017
Quote from "On the System of Existential Graphs Considered as an Instrument for the Investigation of Logic"

…a sign is a something which is on the one hand caused or otherwise determined by something else which is not utterly and altogether unreal, – this something else being the object of the sign....

Article in Journal | Posted 23/08/2017
Santaella Braga, Lucia (1988). Charles S. Peirce's Object (of the Sign)
Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/08/2017
Quote from "Notes on Logical Critique of the Essential Articles of Religious Faith"

Nature of a Sign. Its Object is all that the Sign recognizes; since the Sign cannot be understood until the Object is already identically...

Manuscript | Posted 22/08/2017
Peirce, Charles S. (1911.10.20). Notes on Logical Critique of the Essential Articles of Religious Faith. MS [R] 854

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., October 20, 1911, 1 folded sheet.
The nature of a sign: sign objects and interpretants.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/08/2017
Quote from "On the Foundations of Mathematics"

Every sign is regarded as having an object, or real thing to which it corresponds. But though regarded as having an object, it does not cease to be a sign because no such object really ...

Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017
Hausman, Carl L. (2002). Charles Peirce's Evolutionary Realism as a Process Philosophy
Focuses on Charles Peirce's evolutionary realism. Information on the twofold object of inquiry; Functions of the dynamical object.
Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/02/2016
Quote from "Short Logic"

A sign is a thing which serves to convey knowledge of some other thing, which it is said to stand for or represent. This thing is called the ...

Article in Journal | Posted 22/12/2015
Hilpinen, Risto (2007). On the Objects and Interpretants of Signs: Comments on T. L. Short's Peirce's Theory of Signs
The article reviews the book "Peirce's Theory of Signs," by T. L. Short.
Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

That thing which causes a sign as such is called the object (according to the usage of speech, the “real,” but more accurately, the existent object)...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2015
Quote from "Essays on Meaning. Preface"

By the Object of a Sign, as the term is used by the present writer, is meant that to which the Sign applies but which it does not express otherwise than through...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/11/2015
Quote from "An Attempt to state systematically the Doctrine of the Census in Geometrical Topics or Topical Geometry, more commonly called "Topologie" in German books; Being A Mathematical-Logical Recreation of C. S. Peirce following the lead of J. B. List

The object is something external to and independent of the sign which determines in the sign an element corresponding to itself; so that we have to distinguish the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 17/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…in all general inquiries about signs nothing is of more lively importance than maintaining a clear and sharp distinction between the object, or professed cause of the sign...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…the essential nature of a sign is that it mediates between its Object which is supposed to determine it and to be, in some sense, the cause of it, and its Meaning, or, as I prefer to say, in...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…the object is the antecedent of the meaning […] the object is the idea or thing that the sign finds, the meaning what it leaves.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…any sign, of whatsoever kind, professes to mediate between an Object, on the one hand, that to which it applies, and which is thus in a sense the cause of the sign...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2015
Quote from "Meaning Preface"

[The Sign can only] represent the Object and tell about it. It cannot furnish acquaintance with or recognition of that Object; for that is what is meant in this volume by...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/01/2015
Quote from "Reason's Rules"

I shall endeavor consistently to employ the word ‘object’ […] to mean that which a sign, so far as it fulfills the function of a sign, enables one who knows the sign, and...

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