Charles Sanders Peirce
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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-09-10–1914-04-19) was an American logician, philosopher, scientist, and mathematician.
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- 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.
- A Letter to Lady Welby, SS 80-81, 1908
- By "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.
- 'Pragmatism', The Essential Peirce. Selected Philosophical Writings. Vol. 2:411, 1907. edited by the Peirce Edition Project, 1998. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.
- By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about.
- "Reflections on Real and Unreal Objects", MS 966
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