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‘Real Object’ (pub. 18.08.13-18:04). 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-20.
Term: 
Real Object
Quote: 

We must distinguish between the Immediate Object, – i.e., the Object as represented in the sign, – and the Real (no, because perhaps the Object is altogether fictive, I must choose a different term; therefore:), say rather the Dynamical Object, which, from the nature of things, the Sign cannot express, which it can only indicate and leave the interpreter to find out by collateral experience.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1897-1909). Letters to William James. L [R] 224.
References: 
EP 2:498
Date of Quote: 
1909
URL: 

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