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Term: 
Sign
Quote: 

The categories directly point out that anything may be regarded, first, in the aspect of a simple Quale; secondly, as in Relation to other things; and thirdly, as a Sign, that is as referring to an object in virtue of determining an interpreting sign, which [I] call its interpretant[,] to refer to the object in the same way.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise. MS [R] 425.
References: 
MS [R] 425:116
Date of Quote: 
1902
Editorial Annotations: 

From an earlier/discarded draft

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