Interpretant

Keyword: Interpretant


Dictionary Entry | Posted 26/10/2015
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VII"

We are all […] sufficiently familiar with the fact that many words have much implication; but I think we need to reflect upon the circumstance that every word implies some proposition or, what is...

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

…the essential nature of a sign is that it mediates between its Object which is supposed to determine it and to be, in some sense, the cause of it, and its Meaning, or, as I prefer to say, in...

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

I pass now to the […] essential ingredient of the interpreter, or as I prefer to call it, the interpretant. I might call it the Meaning, since it includes all that...

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

…any sign, of whatsoever kind, professes to mediate between an Object, on the one hand, that to which it applies, and which is thus in a sense the cause of the sign, and, on the other hand, a...

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

How shall we name the entire mental effect which a sign of itself is calculated, in its proper significative function, to produce? The word signification is somewhat too narrow, since, as...

Article in Journal | Posted 06/10/2015
Proni, Giampaolo (2015). Umberto Eco and Charles Peirce: A slow and respectful convergence
The aim of the essay is to link Eco's theory of the Encyclopedia as regulative hypothesis with his theory of interpretation, by evidencing the intrinsic dynamic character of the encyclopedic...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/05/2015
Quote from "On the Classification of the Sciences"

A Representamen can be considered from three formal points of view, namely, first, as the substance of the representation, or the Vehicle of the Meaning, which is common...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2015
Quote from "Meaning Preface"

It is not only essential to a Sign that it should represent, i.e. stand in place of or for, an Object, but, if possible, still more so that it should be capable of Interpretation...

Manuscript | Posted 19/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1902 [c.]). Reason's Rules. MS [R] 599

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902], pp. 4-45, 31-42, and 8 pp. of fragments.
The nature of a sign. Propositions as the significations of signs which represent that some...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/01/2015
Quote from "Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, and the Reducibility of Fourthness [R]"

Every sign has an object, which may be regarded either as it is immediately represented in the sign to be [or] as it is in it own firstness. It is equally essential to the function of a sign that...

Manuscript | Posted 15/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, and the Reducibility of Fourthness [R]. MS [R] 914

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 5-8.
The nature of signs.

Manuscript | Posted 26/11/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1909). Meaning Preface. MS [R] 637

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., October 3-13, 1909, pp. 9-36, 27-30, 28-29, 31-36.
Tendency to guess right (but not necessarily on the first guess). Pure logic supports the...

Article in Journal | Posted 22/11/2014
Hilpinen, Risto (2013). Conception, Sense, and Reference in Peircean semiotics
In his Logical Investigations Edmund Husserl criticizes John Stuart Mill’s account of meaning as connotation, especially Mill’s failure to separate the distinction between connotative and non-...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/09/2014
Quote from "Letters to Paul Carus"

any thing that the sign, as such, effects may be considered as the Interpretant.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/09/2014
Quote from "On the theory of Collections and Multitude"

an interpretant is an idea or other sign legitimately & purposely determined by a sign.

Manuscript | Posted 12/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1905-07 [c.]). On the theory of Collections and Multitude. MS [R] 31

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1905-07?], 2 pp.; plus 1 p. (p. 2) (“Note on Collections”).

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Foundations of Mathematics [R]. MS [R] 11

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-2, incomplete.

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Foundations of Mathematics [R]. MS [R] 10

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-2.

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Foundations of Mathematics [R]. MS [R] 9

A. MS., n.p. [c.1903?], pp. 1-5, with rejected pages. Vagueness, generality, and singularity.

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). On the Foundations of Mathematics. MS [R] 8

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-4, 3-4; 4-8 of another draft.

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