Quasi-mind

Keyword: Quasi-mind


Manuscript | Posted 18/08/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1906 [c.]). On Signs [R]. MS [R] 793

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-4, 10-14; plus 9 pp. of variants and 1 p. (fragment).
An attempt to define “sign” as a medium for the communication of form....

Sign, Medium of Communication, Form, Quasi-mind, Medium, Object, Interpretant, Existential Graph, Active Correlate, Passive Correlate, Tertian, Secundan, Priman, Real Object, Immediate Object, Intended Interpretant, Actual Interpretant, Reflex Interpretant, Logic, Material Characters, Speculative Grammar, Speculative Rhetoric, Logical Critic, Utterance, Habit of Action, Growth of Idea-potentiality, Dicisign, Proposition, Critic, Methodeutic
Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

I almost despair of making clear what I mean by a “quasi-mind;” But I will try. A thought is not per se in any mind or quasi-mind. I mean this in the same sense as I might say...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

… quasi-mind is an object which from whatever standpoint it be examined, must evidently have, like anything else, its special qualities of susceptibility to determination...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

Thought is not necessarily connected with a brain. It appears in the work of bees, of crystals, and throughout the purely physical world; and one can no more deny that it is really there, than...