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    19/02/2015 Encyclopedia Article | Fetzer, James: Peirce and Propensities

    Peirce introduced a conception of probabilities as “would-be’s” that are intensional, dispositional, directly related to the long run, and indirectly related to the single case. The most adquate conception takes them to be intensional, dispositional, directly related to the single case and indirectly related to the long run. When probabilities are properties of single cases, then finite “short runs” and infinite “long runs” are successively longer...
    17/02/2015 Encyclopedia Article | Bacha, Maria L.: The evolution of Peirce's concept of induction

    The goal of the present work is to discuss the evolution Peirce´s concept of induction under the view of its correlation with realism. The process of induction in Peirce is grounded on the realism of the continua or the doctrine of synechism, in counterpart to the nominalistic, deterministic and necessitarian view of other authors.
    16/02/2015 Encyclopedia Article | Merrel, Floyd: Peirce's Basic Classes of Signs in a Somewhat Different Vein

    The genuine Peircean concept of the sign is more adequately imaged by a tripod than the customary triangle. The tripod allows for three-way interaction between the three sign components, and it gives rise to Peirce’s nine sign classes and the ten signs that are engendered from them.
    20/01/2015 Dictionary Entry | Informational Index

    The Genuine Index represents the duality between the Representamen and its Object. As a whole it stands for the Object; but it has a part or element of it [which it] represents as being the Representamen, by being an Icon or analogue of the Object in some way; and by virtue of that duality, it conveys...
    20/01/2015 Dictionary Entry | Monstrative Index

    A degenerate Index is a representamen which represents a single object because it is factually connected with it, but which conveys no information whatever. Such, for example, are the letters attached to a geometrical or other diagram. A proper name is substantially the same thing; for...
    19/01/2015 Dictionary Entry | Object

    …I shall endeavor consistently to employ the word ‘object’ […] to mean that which a sign, so far as it fulfills the function of a sign, enables one who knows the sign, and knows it as a a sign, to know.
    19/01/2015 Dictionary Entry | Symbol

    A Symbol […] represents its object solely by virtue of being represented to represent it by the interpretant which it determines.
    19/01/2015 Dictionary Entry | Icon

    An icon is a pure image, not necessarily visual. Being a pure image it involves no profession of being a sign; because such profession would be a sign not of the nature of an image. There is no known cause making it an image of its object; for if there were it would in part have a significant character of the Indexical type...
    19/01/2015 Dictionary Entry | Index

    An Index is a thing which having been forcibly affected by its object, forcibly affects its interpretant and causes that interpretant to be forcibly affected by the object, and to affect its interpretant in turn; and which, further, so far as it is a sign, becomes a sign in this way. So far as...
    19/01/2015 Dictionary Entry | Sign

    A sign is something which in some measure and in some respect makes its interpretant the sign of that of which it is itself the sign. [—] [A] sign which merely represents itself to itself is nothing else but that thing itself. The two infinite series, the one back toward the object, the other forward...
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