‘Symbol’ (pub. 05.05.13-11:06). 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-logic-sciences-1.
Quote:
A type/symbol is a representation whose correspondence with its object is of the same immaterial kind as a sign but is founded nevertheless in its very nature and is not merely supposed and fictitious.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1865). Logic of the Sciences. MS [W] 113; MS [R] 769, 734, 729, 921, 922, 728, S 66.
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-logic-sciences-1