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‘Famisign’ (pub. 08.08.17-14:48). 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-54.
Term: 
Famisign
Quote: 

…Signs, in respect to their Modes of possible Presentation, are divisible […] into
[—]
C. Famisigns, familiar signs, which must be General, as General signs must be familiar or composed of Familiar signs. [I speak of signs which are “general,” not in the sense of signifying Generals, but as being themselves general; just as Charlemagne is general, in that it occurs many times with one and the same denotation.]

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (nd). Letters to Lady Welby. MS [R] L463.
References: 
CP 8.347
Date of Quote: 
1908-12-24
URL: 

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