Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Icon’ (pub. 28.04.13-19:51). 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-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-iii-4.

Term:

Icon

Quote:

… the Icon may undoubtedly be divided according to the categories; but the mere completeness of the notion of the icon does not imperatively call for any such division. For a pure icon does not draw any distinction between itself and its object. It represents whatever it may represent, and whatever it is like, it in so far is. It is an affair of suchness only.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III. MS [R] 308.

References:

CP 5.74

Date of Quote:

1903

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-iii-4