Quote from "P of L"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Replica’ (pub. 13.03.18-12:34). 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-p-l-0.

Term:

Replica

Quote:

…the word ‘the’ occurs, on the average, twenty times on an English page (more or fewer times, according to the style), and all these are so many occurrences of one and the same word. In that sense a word is a ‘legisign.’ But a legisign can only exists in such occurrences, which I term its replicas; and each of these replicas is a suisign.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1903 [c.]). P of L. MS [R] 800.

References:

MS [R] 800:2

Date of Quote:

1903 [c.]

Editorial Annotations:

From a probably discarded page

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-p-l-0