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‘Object’ (pub. 25.11.15-01:37). 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-essays-meaning-preface-1.
Term: 
Object
Quote: 

By the Object of a Sign, as the term is used by the present writer, is meant that to which the Sign applies but which it does not express otherwise than through some other Sign, or through collateral experience, or through an indication of how the interpreter of it may proceed in order to identify it.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1909). Essays on Meaning. Preface. MS [R] 640.
References: 
MS [R] 640:9
Date of Quote: 
1909
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