Qualisign

Keyword: Qualisign


Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/03/2018
Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni"

A sign in itself may be an indefinite possibility, when I term as a Qualisign, or it may be an existent thing or event, when I term it a Sinsign (...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/03/2018
Quote from "P of L"

…signs are divisible, first, according to their modes of being, as objects; secondly, according to the modes of their references to their objects; thirdly, according to the modes of their...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/03/2016
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

A qualisign is an aspect, impression, or other priman significant regardless of its parts or of anything else simply because it involves the very character...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined"

a Qualisign is any quality in so far as it is a sign. Since a quality is whatever it is positively in itself, a quality can only denote an object by virtue of some...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

The qualisign […] has no identity. It is the mere quality of an appearance & is not exactly the same throughout a second. Instead of identity, it has great similarity, & cannot...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined"

A Qualisign is a quality which is a Sign. It cannot actually act as a sign until it is embodied; but the embodiment has nothing to do with its character as a sign...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

As it is in itself, a sign is either of the nature of an appearance, when I call it a qualisign; or secondly, it is an individual object or event, when I...