Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni"

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‘Qualisign’ (pub. 19.03.18-11:46). 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-mario-calderoni-9.

Term:

Qualisign

Quote:

A sign in itself may be an indefinite possibility, when I term as a Qualisign, or it may be an existent thing or event, when I term it a Sinsign (sin- is the sim- of simul, simplex, etc.), or it may be a general type, when I call it a Legisign.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1905). Letters to Mario Calderoni. MS [R] L67.

References:

MS [R] L67:36

Date of Quote:

1905

Editorial Annotations:

Parenthetical comment enclosed in square brackets in the original manuscript

URL:

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