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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined" A Symbol is a sign which refers to the Object that it denotes by virtue of a law, usually an association of general ideas, which operates to cause the Symbol to be... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III" A symbol is a representamen which fulfills its function regardless of any similarity or analogy with its object and equally regardless of any factual... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra" A symbol is a representamen whose special significance or fitness to represent just what it does represent lies in nothing but the very fact of there being a habit... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra" Every symbol is an ens rationis, because it consists in a habit, in a regularity; now every regularity consists in the future conditional occurrence of facts not themselves that ... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise" A Genuine Sign is a Transuasional Sign, or Symbol, which is a sign which owes its significant virtue to a character which can only be realized by the aid of its... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Short Logic" A symbol is a sign naturally fit to declare that the set of objects which is denoted by whatever set of indices may be in certain ways attached to it is... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Grand Logic 1893: The Art of Reasoning. Chapter II. What is a Sign?" The word symbol has so many meanings that it would be an injury to the language to add a new one. I do not think that the signification I attach to it, that of a... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 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... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VII" The third and last kind of representations are symbols or general representations. They connote attributes and so connote them as to determine what they denote.... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture IX" A symbol is a general representation like a word or conception. [—] A symbol is a representation whose essential Quality and Relation are... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Logic of the Sciences" A type/symbol is a representation whose correspondence with its object is of the same immaterial kind as a sign but is founded nevertheless in... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Logic of the Sciences" Representations whose subject depends upon its object. That is which are intelligible to those who can comprehend a certain character of the object - if there are several... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Teleological Logic" Representations are of three kinds according to their truth or coincidence with their objects. These are 1. Signs. Representations by virtue of convention.... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture VIII: Forms of Induction and Hypothesis" By a symbol I mean [a representation] which upon being presented to the mind - without any resemblance to its object and without any reference to a previous convention -... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 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 represent their objects only in... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013 Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism" … an analysis of the essence of a sign, (stretching that word to its widest limits, as anything which, being determined by an object, determines an interpretation to determination, through it... |
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Manuscript | Posted 05/05/2013 Peirce, Charles S. (1893-1895 [c.]). Division III. Substantial Study of Logic. Chapter VI. The Essence of Reasoning. MS [R] 409 From the Robin Catalogue: Term, Concept, Proposition, Judgment, Belief, Inference, Assertion, Symbol, Index, Subject, Predicate, Meaning, Selective, Grammar, Hieroglyphs, Monstrative Sign, Reasoning, Leading Principle, Knowledge, Perfect Knowledge, Sure Knowledge, Practically Perfect Belief, Information, Essential Possibility, Substantial Possibility, Informationally Possible, Informationally Necessary, Informationally Contingent, Nominalism, Realism, Essential Necessity, Substantial Necessity, Laboratory Philosopher, Seminary Philosopher, Descartes, Imaginative Reasoning, Experiential Reasoning, Nota Notae, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013 Quote from "Symbol" Symbol. A Sign (q.v.) which is constituted a sign merely or mainly by the fact that it is used and understood as such, whether the habit is natural or... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013 Quote from "Sign" A symbol is a sign which would lose the character which renders it a sign if there were no interpretant. Such is any utterance of speech which signifies... |
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Manuscript | Posted 07/04/2013 Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs. MS [R] 491 From the Robin Catalogue: Representation, Sign, Representamen, Icon, Index, Symbol, Informant Index, Proposition, Photograph, Identifying Index, Term, Argument, Graph, Entire Graph, Partial Graph, Pseudograph, Logical Graph, Existential Graph, Sheet of Assertion, Rhema, Onoma, Spot, Hook, Medad, Monad, Dyad, Triad, Polyad, Scroll, Defender, Opponent, Pure Icon, Language, Artificial Sign
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