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Term: 
Interpretant
Quote: 

A ‘sign’, I say, shall be understood as anything which represents itself to convey an influence from an Object, so that this may intelligently determine a ‘meaning’, or ‘interpretant’

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.
References: 
MS [R] 318:163
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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