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‘Icon’ (pub. 28.04.13-20:04). 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-letters-lady-welby-23.
Term: 
Icon
Quote: 

In respect to their relations to their dynamic objects, I divide signs into Icons, Indices, and Symbols (a division I gave in 1867). I define an Icon as a sign which is determined by its dynamic object by virtue of its own internal nature. Such is any qualisign, like a vision, - or the sentiment excited by a piece of music considered as representing what the composer intended. Such may be a sinsign, like an individual diagram; say a curve of the distribution of errors.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (nd). Letters to Lady Welby. MS [R] L463.
References: 
CP 8.335
Date of Quote: 
1904
URL: 

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