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‘Index’ (pub. 05.05.13-10:26). 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-telepathy-0.
Term: 
Index
Quote: 

… what is an index, or true symptom? It is something which, without any rational necessitation, is forced by blind fact to correspond to its object.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). Telepathy. MS [R] 881.
References: 
CP 7.628
Date of Quote: 
1903
URL: 

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