Quote from "Letters to Paul Carus"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Sign’ (pub. 19.09.14-16:39). 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-paul-carus-8.

Term:

Sign

Quote:

A sign in general is 1^st something Real, that is 2^nd applicable to an object different from itself and already known to the person to whom it is a sign, and 3^rd is capable of interpretation in the mind of that person, so that it will (or would if accepted as veracious sign) have some effect upon him of a kind it was calculated or fit to have.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1890-1913). Letters to Paul Carus. MS [L] 77.

References:

ILS 284

Date of Quote:

1910 [c.]

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letters-paul-carus-8