Sinsign

Keyword: Sinsign


Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/03/2018
Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni"

A sign in itself may be an indefinite possibility, when I term as a Qualisign, or it may be an existent thing or event, when I term it a Sinsign (...

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

…signs are divisible, first, according to their modes of being, as objects; secondly, according to the modes of their references to their objects; thirdly, according to the modes of their...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/03/2016
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

A sinsign is a definite individual existent which is significant because of the circumstances of its existence, which are either significant or include the very...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/01/2015
Quote from "Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, and the Reducibility of Fourthness [R]"

…in the first place a sign may, in its own firstness, either be a mere idea or quality of feeling, or it may be a ‘sinsign’, that is, an individual existent (and P....

Manuscript | Posted 15/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, and the Reducibility of Fourthness [R]. MS [R] 914

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 5-8.
The nature of signs.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined"

A Sinsign (where the syllable sin is taken as meaning “being only once,” as in single, simple, Latin semel, etc.) is an actual...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

As it is in itself, a sign is either of the nature of an appearance, when I call it a qualisign; or secondly, it is an individual object or event, when I call it a...