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‘Icon’ (pub. 19.11.15-23:07). 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-foundations-mathematics.
Term: 
Icon
Quote: 

Such a sign whose significance lies in the qualities of its replicas in themselves is an icon, image, analogue, or copy. Its object is whatever that resembles it its interpretant takes it to be the sign of, and is as sign of that object in proportion as it resemblesĀ it.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1904). On the Foundations of Mathematics. MS [R] 7.
References: 
MS [R] 7:14/5
Date of Quote: 
1904
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