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‘Interpretant’ (pub. 20.08.17-15:21). 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-6.
Term: 
Interpretant
Quote: 

Every sign functioning as such determines an interpretant sign. Generally there are [many] different signs of different meaning which the sign authorizes. I call all these its interpretants. The complete interpretant is the sign itself.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1904). On the Foundations of Mathematics. MS [R] 8.
References: 
MS [R] 8:4-5
Date of Quote: 
1904
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