[Inquiry] Re: Attribute, Impute, Represent

[Jon Awbrey]

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AIR.  Note 2

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| As relations separate into two kinds on account of the double reference they contain,
| so representations from containing a triple reference separate into three kinds.  For
| the relation of a repraesentamen to its object (correlate) may be a real relation and,
| then, either an agreement or a difference, or it may be an ideal relation or one from
| which the reference to a correspondent (subject of representation) cannot be prescinded
| by position.  In the first case, that is where the repraesentamen has a real agreement
| with its object, the representation consists in the 'likeness';  a simple quality of
| the object is shown but the object itself is not said to exist.  In the second case,
| there is a real difference of the repraesentamen from its object, that is to say not
| a mere difference in quality but also a bringing of them together in nature;  in this
| case the representative character of the one will consist in constant accompaniment
| by the other, so that it 'indicates' the existence of the latter without noting any
| characters of it.  Such a representation may be termed an 'index'.  In the third
| case, where the relation of the repraesentamen to its object is ideal, the ground
| of this relation is an attribute of the correlate 'attributed' to the relate, and
| then the relate or repraesentamen represents the object or correlate on account of
| the quality attributed to it.  This gives a 'general sign', a word or conception,
| for the repraesentamen will necessarily apply to everything which contains its
| attributed quality.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, pp. 355.
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| C.S. Peirce, "Logic Chapter 1", MS 115 (1866), pp. 351-356 in:
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce:  A Chronological Edition',
|'Volume 1, 1857-1866', Peirce Edition Project,
| Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

Incidental Musement:
Peter Suber, "Infinite Reflections"
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/infinity.htm

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