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‘Icon’ (pub. 20.08.17-14:46). 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-3.
Term: 
Icon
Quote: 

Even an ‘icon,’ if it is going to be a sign, at all, must be related to an object of which it is the sign. But what makes it suitable to be a sign is that it possesses certain qualities. Those qualities it would possess just the same though the object did not exist.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1904). On the Foundations of Mathematics. MS [R] 8.
References: 
MS [R] 8:3
Date of Quote: 
1904
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