Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Immediate Object’ (pub. 10.08.17-09:06). 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-61.

Term:

Immediate Object

Quote:

I am now prepared to give my division of signs, as soon as I have pointed out that a sign has two objects, its object as it is represented and its object in itself.
[—]
In respect to its immediate object a sign may either be a sign of a quality, of an existent, or of a law.

Source:

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

References:

SS 32-33

Date of Quote:

1904-10-12

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letters-lady-welby-61