‘Symbol’ (pub. 28.04.13-19:18). 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-1.
Quote:
A symbol is a sign which would lose the character which renders it a sign if there were no interpretant. Such is any utterance of speech which signifies what it does only by virtue of its being understood to have that signification.
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-1