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‘Immediate Object’ (pub. 14.10.15-20:18). 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-70.
Term: 
Immediate Object
Quote: 

…the Immediate Object is not the Object Proper to which the collateral observation is directed, but is the consequent apprehension of the Real Object, or intelligential cause of the sign, which that collateral observation brings about.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.
References: 
MS [R] 318:39-40
Date of Quote: 
1907
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