Symbol

Keyword: Symbol


Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Syllabus: Nomenclature and Division of Triadic Relations, as far as they are determined"

A Symbol is a sign which refers to the Object that it denotes by virtue of a law, usually an association of general ideas, which operates to cause the Symbol to be...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III"

A symbol is a representamen which fulfills its function regardless of any similarity or analogy with its object and equally regardless of any factual...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra"

A symbol is a representamen whose special significance or fitness to represent just what it does represent lies in nothing but the very fact of there being a habit...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra"

Every symbol is an ens rationis, because it consists in a habit, in a regularity; now every regularity consists in the future conditional occurrence of facts not themselves that ...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise"

A Genuine Sign is a Transuasional Sign, or Symbol, which is a sign which owes its significant virtue to a character which can only be realized by the aid of its...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Short Logic"

A symbol is a sign naturally fit to declare that the set of objects which is denoted by whatever set of indices may be in certain ways attached to it is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Grand Logic 1893: The Art of Reasoning. Chapter II. What is a Sign?"

The word symbol has so many meanings that it would be an injury to the language to add a new one. I do not think that the signification I attach to it, that of a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "On a New List of Categories"

A reference to a ground may also be such that it cannot be prescinded from a reference to an interpretant. In this case it may be termed an imputed quality. If the reference of a relate...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture VII"

The third and last kind of representations are symbols or general representations. They connote attributes and so connote them as to determine what they denote....

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on The Logic of Science; or Induction and Hypothesis: Lecture IX"

A symbol is a general representation like a word or conception. [—] A symbol is a representation whose essential Quality and Relation are...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Logic of the Sciences"

A type/symbol is a representation whose correspondence with its object is of the same immaterial kind as a sign but is founded nevertheless in...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Logic of the Sciences"

Representations whose subject depends upon its object. That is which are intelligible to those who can comprehend a certain character of the object - if there are several...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Teleological Logic"

Representations are of three kinds according to their truth or coincidence with their objects. These are

     1. Signs. Representations by virtue of convention....

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture VIII: Forms of Induction and Hypothesis"

By a symbol I mean [a representation] which upon being presented to the mind - without any resemblance to its object and without any reference to a previous convention -...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "A Sketch of Logical Critics"

… I had observed that the most frequently useful division of signs is by trichotomy into firstly Likenesses, or, as I prefer to say, Icons, which serve to represent their objects only in...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/05/2013
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

… an analysis of the essence of a sign, (stretching that word to its widest limits, as anything which, being determined by an object, determines an interpretation to determination, through it...

Manuscript | Posted 05/05/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1893-1895 [c.]). Division III. Substantial Study of Logic. Chapter VI. The Essence of Reasoning. MS [R] 409

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1893-5, pp. 85-141 (pp. sog, 130 missing), with 8 pp. of variants.
Published, in part, as 4.53-56 (but not all of 56) and 4.61-79 (...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Symbol"

Symbol. A Sign (q.v.) which is constituted a sign merely or mainly by the fact that it is used and understood as such, whether the habit is natural or...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/04/2013
Quote from "Sign"

A symbol is a sign which would lose the character which renders it a sign if there were no interpretant. Such is any utterance of speech which signifies...

Manuscript | Posted 07/04/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs. MS [R] 491

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c 1903], pp. 1-12; 1-10; 1-3; 11 pp. of variants. Logical and existential graphs (pp. 1-12). Basic definitions and principles of...

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