The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Letters to Lady Welby’

Quote: 

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former. My insertion of “upon a person” is a sop to Cerberus, because I despair of making my own broader conception understood.

Date: 
1908
References: 
SS 80-81
Citation: 
‘Interpretant’ (pub. 15.08.13-16:39). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letters-lady-welby-31.
Posted: 
Aug 15, 2013, 16:39 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:55 by Commens Admin