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‘Legisign’ (pub. 13.03.18-13:53). 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-4.
Term: 
Legisign
Quote: 

…signs are divisible, first, according to their modes of being, as objects; secondly, according to the modes of their references to their objects; thirdly, according to the modes of their references to their interpretants. In the first way of dividing them, signs are either qualisigns, or signs that are abstract qualities (in a wide sense), or suisigns, signs that are essentially existent as individual objects or events, or legisigns, signs that [are] general types, laws, or habits.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903 [c.]). P of L. MS [R] 800.
References: 
MS [R] 800:4
Date of Quote: 
1903 [c.]
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