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‘Dynamical Interpretant’ (pub. 16.08.13-18:12). 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-william-james-15.
Term: 
Dynamical Interpretant
Quote: 

…it appears to me that all symptoms of disease, signs of weather, etc., have no utterer. For I do not think we can properly say that God utters any sign when He is the Creator of all things. But when [Lady Welby] says, as she does, that this is connected with Volition, I at once note that the volitional element of Interpretation is the Dynamical Interpretant.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1897-1909). Letters to William James. L [R] 224.
References: 
EP 2:496
Date of Quote: 
1909
URL: 

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