Collateral Observation

Keyword: Collateral Observation


Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…merely producing a mental effect is not sufficient to constitute an object a sign; for a thunder-clap or avalanche may do that without conveying any meaning at all. In order that a thing may be a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/01/2015
Quote from "Letters to William James"

All that part of the understanding of the Sign which the Interpreting Mind has needed collateral observation for is outside the Interpretant. I do not mean by “collateral observation” acquaintance...