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‘Object’ (pub. 12.08.13-20:23). 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-basis-pragmaticism-5.
Term: 
Object
Quote: 

[A sign] must be determined to correspond, according to some principle, and by some species of causation, with something else, called its Object. In a word, whether physically, rationally, or otherwise directly or indirectly, its Object, as agent, acts upon the sign, as patient.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1906). The Basis of Pragmaticism. MS [R] 283.
References: 
MS [R] 283
Date of Quote: 
1905
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