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‘Interpretant’ (pub. 14.10.15-16:11). 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-59.
Term: 
Interpretant
Quote: 

…any sign, of whatsoever kind, professes to mediate between an Object, on the one hand, that to which it applies, and which is thus in a sense the cause of the sign, and, on the other hand, a Meaning, or to use a preferable technical term, an Interpretant, that which the sign expresses, the result which it produces in its capacity as sign.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.
References: 
MS [R] 318:13-4
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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