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Quote from ‘Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture IX’

Term: 
Symbol
Quote: 

A symbol is a general representation like a word or conception. [—] A symbol is a representation whose essential Quality and Relation are both unprescindible - the Quality of being Imputed and the Relation ideal.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1866). Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture IX. MS [R] 357; MS [W] 130
Date: 
1866
References: 
W 1:475
Citation: 
‘Symbol’ (pub. 05.05.13-11:09). 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-lowell-lectures-logic-science-or-induction-and-hypothesis-lecture-ix-1.
Posted: 
May 05, 2013, 11:09 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:57 by Commens Admin