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‘Sign’ (pub. 14.10.15-14:07). 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-pragmatism-51.
Term: 
Sign
Quote: 

…any sign, of whatever kind, mediates between an object to some sort of conformity with which it is moulded, and which thus determines it, and an effect which it is intended to produce, and which it represents to be the outcome of the object. These two correlates of the sign have to be carefully distinguished. The former is called the object of the sign; the latter is the “meaning,” or, as I usually term it, the “interpretant” of the sign.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.
References: 
MS [R] 318:11-2
Date of Quote: 
1907
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