Quote from "Miscellaneous Fragments [R]"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Index’ (pub. 26.08.17-16:46). 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-miscellaneous-fragments-r-8.

Term:

Index

Quote:

An Index is a sign whose signative virtue resides in its factual relation to its object. Certainly, not everything that is in factual relation to another, or is seen to be so, is thereby an index of that other.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (nd). Miscellaneous Fragments [R]. MS [R] S104.

References:

MS [R] S104

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