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‘Sign’ (pub. 05.03.18-11:00). 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-art-reasoning-chapter-ii-what-sign.
Term: 
Sign
Quote: 

There are three kinds of interest we may take in a thing. First, we may have a primary interest in it for itself. Second, we may have a secondary interest in it, on account of its reactions with other things. Third, we may have a mediatory interest in it, in so far as it conveys to a mind an idea about a thing. In so far as it does this, it is a sign, or representamen.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1894). The Art of Reasoning. Chapter II. What is a Sign?. MS [R] 404; MS [R] 1009.
References: 
EP 2:5; MS [R] 1009
Date of Quote: 
1894
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