Final Interpretant

The third sense in which we may properly speak of the Interpretant is that in which I speak of the Final Interpretant meaning that Habit in the production of which the...

The Final Interpretant does not consist in the way in which any mind does act but in the way in which every mind would act. That is, it consists in a truth which...

My Final Interpretant is […] the effect the Sign would produce upon any mind upon which the circumstances should permit it to work out its full effect....

…suppose I awake in the morning before my wife, and that afterwards she wakes up and inquires, “What sort of a day is it?” This is a sign, whose Object, as expressed, is the weather at...

In regard to the Interpretant we have […] to distinguish, in the first place, the Immediate Interpretant, which is the interpretant as it is revealed in the right understanding of the Sign itself...

…there is certainly a third kind of Interpretant, which I call the Final Interpretant, because it is that which would finally be decided to be the true...