The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise’

Quote: 

…signs must be divided, first, into those which are signs by virtue of facts which be equally true even if their objects and interpretants were away and even non-existent, which are likenesses, or Icons; second, into those which are signs by virtue of facts which would subsist even if their interpretants were away, though not if their objects were away, which are indications, or Indices; and thirdly, into signs which are signs only by virtue of facts which would cease to be true if their interpretants were removed, which are intellectual signs, or Symbols.

Date: 
1902
References: 
MS [R] 425:116-117
Editorial Annotations: 

From an earlier/discarded draft

Citation: 
‘Icon’ (pub. 09.03.18-11:18). 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-minute-logic-chapter-i-intended-characters-treatise-28.
Posted: 
Mar 09, 2018, 11:18 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Mar 09, 2018, 11:21 by Mats Bergman