‘Icon’ (pub. 28.04.13-19:14). 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-sign.
Quote:
An icon is a sign which would possess the character which renders it significant, even though its object had no existence; such as a lead-pencil streak as representing a geometrical line.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Sign. In J. M. Baldwin (Ed.), Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. II (pp. 527-528). London: Macmillan and Co.
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-sign