Quote from "Meaning Preface"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Object’ (pub. 07.04.15-20:41). 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-meaning-preface-11.

Term:

Object

Quote:

[The Sign can only] represent the Object and tell about it. It cannot furnish acquaintance with or recognition of that Object; for that is what is meant in this volume by the Object of a Sign; namely, that with which it presupposes an acquaintance in order to convey some further information concerning it.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1909). Meaning Preface. MS [R] 637.

References:

MS [R] 637:31

Date of Quote:

1909

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-meaning-preface-11