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‘Interpretant’ (pub. 09.02.16-10:13). 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-short-logic-13.
Term: 
Interpretant
Quote: 

A sign is a thing which serves to convey knowledge of some other thing, which it is said to stand for or represent. This thing is called the object of the sign; the idea in the mind that the sign excites, which is a mental sign of the same object, is called an interpretant of the sign.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1895). Short Logic: Chapter I. Of Reasoning in General. MS [R] 595.
References: 
EP 2:13
Date of Quote: 
1895
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