Interpretant

Keyword: Interpretant


Manuscript | Posted 31/08/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). On the Foundations of Mathematics. MS [R] 7

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-16, with 3 rejected pages; 17-19 of another draft.
Mathematics as dealing essentially with signs. The MSS. below (Nos. 8-11) are...

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....

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to William James"

Now let us pass to the Interpretant. I am far from having fully explained what the Object of a Sign is; but I have reached the point where further explanation must suppose some understanding of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/08/2013
Quote from "The Fourth Curiosity"

.. a sign endeavours to represent, in part at least, an Object, which is therefore in a sense the cause, or determinant, of the sign even if the sign represents its object falsely. But to say that...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

It is usual and proper to distinguish two Objects of a Sign, the Mediate without, and the Immediate within the Sign. Its Interpretant is all that the Sign conveys:...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/08/2013
Quote from "Pragmatism"

For the proper significate outcome of a sign, I propose the name, the interpretant of the sign. The example of the imperative command shows that it need not...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/08/2013
Quote from "Pragmatism"

A ‘sign’, I say, shall be understood as anything which represents itself to convey an influence from an Object, so that this may intelligently determine a ‘meaning’, or ‘interpretant’

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/08/2013
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

… a Sign has an Object and an Interpretant, the latter being that which the Sign produces in the Quasi-mind that is the Interpreter by determining the latter to a feeling,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/08/2013
Quote from "New Elements (Kaina stoiceia)"

… every sign is intended to determine a sign of the same object with the same signification or meaning. Any sign, B, which a sign, A, is fitted so to determine,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/08/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture V"

I call a representamen which is determined by another representamen, an interpretant of the latter.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/08/2013
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 this character I term a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/08/2013
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 that person an equivalent...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/08/2013
Quote from "On a New List of Categories"

… every comparison requires, besides the related thing, the ground, and the correlate, also a mediating representation which represents the relate to be a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/08/2013
Quote from "Chapter II: The Categories"

A sign stands for something to the idea which it produces, or modifies. Or, it is a vehicle conveying into the mind something from without. That for which it stands is called its...

Manuscript | Posted 27/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1895). Short Logic: Chapter I. Of Reasoning in General. MS [R] 595

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c.1893-3, pp. 1-32, 33-38; plus 14 pp. of variants.
Selections published as follows: 2.286-291 (pp. 6-13); 2.295-296 (pp. 14-16); 2.435-443 (pp. 23-29...

Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). CSP's Lowell Lectures of 1903. 2nd Part of 3rd Draught of Lecture III. MS [R] 465

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, G-1903-2a, October 12, 1903, pp. 68-126; A1-A8.
Published, in part, as 1.521-544 (pp. 68-126, with only the first and last paragraphs...

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