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‘Interpretant’ (pub. 15.08.13-16:35). 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-8.
Term: 
Interpretant
Quote: 

For the proper significate outcome of a sign, I propose the name, the interpretant of the sign. The example of the imperative command shows that it need not be of a mental mode of being.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.
References: 
CP 5.473
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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