Copy [in Semeiotic]

Keyword: Copy [in Semeiotic]


Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Logic of the Sciences"

… I must call your attention to the differences there are in the manner in which different representations stand for their objects. In the first place there are likenesses or copies - such as ...

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Quote from "Logic of the Sciences"

A copy is a representation which really and of its self refers to its object by resembling it.

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Quote from "Logic of the Sciences"

Representations whose subject and object depend immediately upon the ground and not upon any character of either. But the ground in any case must be a character of...

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Quote from "Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture I"

The first and simplest kind of truth is the resemblance of a copy. It may be roughly stated to consist in a sameness of predicates. Leibniz would say that carried to its highest point, it...

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Quote from "Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture VIII: Forms of Induction and Hypothesis"

By a copy, I mean a representation whose agreement with its object depends merely upon a sameness of predicates.

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Quote from "Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture X: Grounds of Induction"

A representation which denotes without connoting is a mere sign. If it connotes without thereby denoting, it is a mere copy....

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Quote from "A Treatise on Metaphysics [W]"

The simplest kind of agreement of truth is a resemblance between the representation and its object. I call this verisimilitude, and the representation a copy...

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Quote from "Teleological Logic"

Representations are of three kinds according to their truth or coincidence with their objects. These are

     1. Signs. Representations by virtue of convention....