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‘Index’ (pub. 28.04.13-19:16). 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-0.
Term: 
Index
Quote: 

An index is a sign which would, at once, lose the character which makes it a sign if its object were removed, but would not lose that character if there were no interpretant. Such, for instance, is a piece of mould with a bullet-hole in it as sign of a shot; for without the shot there would have been no hole; but there is a hole there, whether anybody has the sense to attribute it to a shot or not.

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.
References: 
DPP2, 527; CP 2.304
Date of Quote: 
1902
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