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‘Sign’ (pub. 15.10.15-14:35). 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-prescott-book-4.
Term: 
Sign
Quote: 

A Sign is anything which represents something else (so far as it is complete), and if it represents itself it is as a part of another sign which represents something other than itself, and it represents itself in other circumstances, in other connections. [—]

Either a Sign is to be defined as something which truly represents something else or else as something which professes to represent something.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907-10). The Prescott Book. MS [R] 277.
References: 
MS [R] 277
Date of Quote: 
1909.10.28
URL: 

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