Token

Keyword: Token


Manuscript | Posted 24/08/2017
Peirce, Charles S. (1906 [c.]). On Existential Graphs as an Instrument of Logical Research. MS [R] 498

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook (Harvard Cooperative), n.p., n.d.
Evidently prepared as an address to the American Academy. CSP mentions that existential graphs were...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2017
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

A Sign may be an Occurrence, such as any one of a score of “thes” on a single page of a single copy of an English book. I call such a Sign a Token.

Article in Journal | Posted 30/10/2014
Hilpinen, Risto (2012). Types and Tokens: On the Identity and Meaning of Names and Other Words
The article presents a speech by Risto Hilpinen, president of the Charles S. Peirce Society, delivered at the April 5, 2012 meeting of the society in Seattle, Washington, in which he discussed the...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/04/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

A Sign may itself have a “possible” Mode of Being. E.g. A hexagon inscribed in or circumscribed about a conic. It is a Sign, in that the collinearity of the intersections of opposite...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/04/2013
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

A common mode of estimating the amount of matter in a MS. or printed book is to count the number of words. There will ordinarily be about twenty the’s on a page, and of course they count...