Immediate Object

Keyword: Immediate Object


Article in Journal | Posted 26/03/2018
Wilson, Aaron B. (2017). The Peircean Solution to Non-Existence Problems
This paper shows how Peirce's semeiotics can be applied to explain the representation of non-existent or unreal objects, whether in misrepresentation or in thought and discourse about fictional...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/09/2017
Quote from "Letters to Paul Carus"

Then there are 3 divisions that relate to the Object. One according to the form under which the Sign presents its Object. This is of course the object as the sign...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/09/2017
Quote from "Adirondack Summer School Lectures"

…there are two aspects of the object:

  1. The object as acting on the sign. That is called the real object

  2. The object as represented...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/08/2017
Quote from "On the System of Existential Graphs Considered as an Instrument for the Investigation of Logic"

…every sign has two objects. It has that object which it represents itself to have, its Immediate Object, which has no other being than that of being represented...

Manuscript | Posted 22/08/2017
Peirce, Charles S. (1911.10.20). Notes on Logical Critique of the Essential Articles of Religious Faith. MS [R] 854

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., October 20, 1911, 1 folded sheet.
The nature of a sign: sign objects and interpretants.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 10/08/2017
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

I am now prepared to give my division of signs, as soon as I have pointed out that a sign has two objects, its object as it is represented and its object in itself....

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2017
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

As to the Object of a Sign, it is to be observed that the Sign not only really is determined by its Object, – that is, for example, the name Charlemagne is in correspondence with the historic...

Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017
Chumbley, Robert (2000). The Synonymous Nature and communal Function of Peirce's Ground, Immediate Object and Meaning: Three Abductions
Argues that the triad ground/immediate object/meaning offers a clearer resonance with the texts of Charles S. Peirce and opens more surely on the great theme of community. Texts wherein immediate...
Article in Journal | Posted 22/03/2016
Bellucci, Francesco (2015). Exploring Peirce's speculative grammar: The immediate object of a sign
The paper argues against what I call the "Fregean interpretation" of Peirce's distinction between the immediate and the dynamic object of a sign, according to which Peirce's...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…philosophists are in the habit of distinguishing two objects of many signs, the immediate and the real. The former is an image, or notion, which the interpreter is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…all logicians have distinguished two objects of a sign: the Immediate object or object as the sign represents it, (and without this one, a sign would not be a sign...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…the Immediate Object is not the Object Proper to which the collateral observation is directed, but is the consequent apprehension of the Real Object, or intelligential...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

The immediate object is the object as the sign represents it: the real object is that same object as it is, in its own mode of being, independent of the sign or any...

Article in Journal | Posted 23/11/2014
Alexander, Victoria (2013). Creativity: Self-Referential Mistaking, Not Negating
In C. S. Peirce, as well as in the work of many biosemioticians, the semiotic object is sometimes described as a physical “object” with material properties and sometimes described as an “ideal object...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to William James"

We must distinguish between the Immediate Object, – i.e., the Object as represented in the sign, – and the Real (no, because perhaps the Object is altogether fictive...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to William James"

As to the Object, that may mean the Object as cognized in the Sign and therefore an Idea, or it may be the Object as it is regardless of any particular aspect of it...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

It is usual and proper to distinguish two Objects of a Sign, the Mediate without, and the Immediate within the Sign. Its Interpretant is all that the Sign conveys: acquaintance with its Object...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

… it is necessary to distinguish the Immediate Object, or the Object as the Sign represents it, from the Dynamical Object, or really efficient but...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Pragmatism"

… the requaesitum which we have been seeking is simply that which the sign “stands for,” or the idea of that which it is calculated to awaken. [—]

This requaesitum I term...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/08/2013
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

… we have to distinguish the Immediate Object, which is the Object as the Sign itself represents it, and whose Being is thus dependent upon the Representation of it in the...

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