Quote from "Pragmatism"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Real Object’ (pub. 15.10.15-10:32). 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-76.

Term:

Real Object

Quote:

…all logicians have distinguished two objects of a sign: the Immediate object or object as the sign represents it, (and without this one, a sign would not be a sign); the other [the] Real object, or object as it is independent of any particular idea representing it. Of course, many signs have no real objects.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.

References:

MS [R] 318:15

Date of Quote:

1907

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-pragmatism-76