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Quote from ‘Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism’

Quote: 

… 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, by the same object), leads to a proof that every sign is determined by its object, either first, by partaking in the characters of the object, when I call the sign an Icon; secondly, by being really and in its individual existence connected with the individual object, when I call the sign an Index; thirdly, by more or less approximate certainty that it will be interpreted as denoting the object, in consequence of a habit (which term I use as including a natural disposition), when I call the sign a Symbol.

Date: 
1906
References: 
CP 4.531
Citation: 
‘Icon’ (pub. 28.04.13-20:07). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-prolegomena-apology-pragmaticism-10.
Posted: 
Apr 28, 2013, 20:07 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin