Representamen

Keyword: Representamen


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

A sign is a species under the genus representamen, the definition of which says nothing about a mind. A representamen is an object A, in such a triadic relation...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/03/2018
Quote from "The Art of Reasoning. Chapter I. What Is a Sign?"

Let us call a thing considered as having a signification, a representament.

Manuscript | Posted 05/03/2018
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). Fragments [R]. MS [R] 1009

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 39 pp., excluding various calculations on verso of some pages.
Topics include: continuity and relativity; Anselm’s proof of God’s existence...

Article in Journal | Posted 02/02/2018
Olshewsky, Thomas (1993). Peirce's Antifoundationalism
Focuses on the role of philosopher Charles Peirce in post-structuralism. Peirce's semiotic notion of a representamen; Background on his theory of signs; Meaning of a concept.
Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/09/2017
Quote from "On the Logical Nature of the Proposition"

A representamen is an object, A, in such a triadic relation to an object, B, for an object, C, (the italicized prepositions merely indicating a difference...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 10/08/2017
Quote from "Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary [R]"

A representamen, or sign, is anything (not necessarily real) which stands at once in a relation of correspondence to a second third, its object, and to another possible...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 10/08/2017
Quote from "Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary [R]"

A representamen, or sign, is anything which stands, in any respect, at once in a relation of correspondence to a correlate, called its object[,] and to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/05/2015
Quote from "On the Classification of the Sciences"

A Representamen can be considered from three formal points of view, namely, first, as the substance of the representation, or the Vehicle of the Meaning, which is common...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/01/2015
Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs"

I call that which represents a representamen.

Article in Journal | Posted 30/10/2014
Nöth, Winfried (2011). From Representation to Thirdness and Representamen to Medium: Evolution of Peircean Key Terms and Topics
The article discusses philosopher Charles S. Peirce's theory of representation, noting its triadic nature. It is said that his use of the terms representation and sign was similar to that of...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/09/2014
Quote from "On the Logic of Quantity, and especially of Infinity"

A sign, or representamen, involves a plural relation, for it may be defined as something in which an element of cognition is so embodied as to convey that cognition from...

Manuscript | Posted 08/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On the Logic of Quantity, and especially of Infinity. MS [R] 16

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS, n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1, 5-9, 7-18, 18-20.
Several definitions of “mathematics,” including Aristotle’s and CSP’s. Mathematical proof and probable reasoning...

Link | Posted 15/04/2014
76 Definitions of the Sign by C. S. Peirce, Collected by Robert Marty

76 Definitions of The Sign by C. S. Peirce collected and analyzed by Robert Marty (Department of Mathematics, University of Perpignan, France) with an appendix of 12 Further Definitions or...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

I use “sign” in the widest sense of the definition. It is a wonderful case of an almost popular use of a very broad word in almost the exact sense of the scientific definition. [—] I formerly...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic"

A Sign, or Representamen, is a First which stands in such a genuine triadic relation to a Second, called its Object, as to be capable of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined"

In every genuine Triadic Relation, the First Correlate may be regarded as determining the Third Correlate in some respect; and triadic relations may be divided according as that determination of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "CSP's Lowell Lectures of 1903. 2nd Part of 3rd Draught of Lecture III"

… I confine the word representation to the operation of a sign or its relation to the object for the interpreter of the representation. The concrete subject that...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "That Categorical and Hypothetical Propositions are one in essence, with some connected matters"

A representation is that character of a thing by virtue of which, for the production of a certain mental effect, it may stand in place of another thing. The thing having...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "On Signs [R]"

A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Logic of Mathematics: An attempt to develop my categories from within"

… representation necessarily involves a genuine triad. For it involves a sign, or representamen, of some kind, outward or inward, mediating between an object and an interpreting thought. Now this...

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