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‘Sign’ (pub. 26.10.15-11:13). 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-47.
Term: 
Sign
Quote: 

A sign mediates between the interpretant sign and its object. Taking sign in its broadest sense, its interpretant is not necessarily a sign. [—] A sign […] is an object which is in relation to its object on the one hand and to an interpretant on the other in such a way as to bring the interpretant into a relation to the object corresponding to its own relation to the object. I might say ‘similar to its own’ for a correspondence consists in a similarity; but perhaps correspondence is narrower.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (nd). Letters to Lady Welby. MS [R] L463.
References: 
SS 31-2; CP 8.332
Date of Quote: 
1904.10.12
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