Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

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‘Potisign’ (pub. 08.08.17-14:34). 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-52.

Term:

Potisign

Quote:

…Signs, in respect to their Modes of possible Presentation, are divisible […] into
A. Potisigns, or Objects which are signs so far as they are merely possible, but felt to be positively possible; as, for example, the seventh ray that passes through the three intersections of opposite sides of Pascal’s hexagram.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (nd). Letters to Lady Welby. MS [R] L463.

References:

CP 8.347

Date of Quote:

1908-12-24

Editorial Annotations:

Link to image of Pascal's hexagram in Wikipedia, suggested by Brian Josephson

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letters-lady-welby-52