[Inquiry] Re: Attribute, Impute, Represent

[Jon Awbrey]

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AIR.  Note 3

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| A Representation is either a Likeness, an Index, or a Symbol.
| A likeness represents its object by agreeing with it in some particular.
| An index represents its object by a real correspondence with it -- as a
| tally does quarts of milk, and a vane the wind.  A symbol is a general
| representation like a word or conception.  Scientifically speaking,
| a likeness is a representation grounded on an internal character --
| that is whose reference to a ground is prescindible.  An index is a
| representation whose relation to its object is prescindible and is a
| Disquiparance, so that its peculiar Quality is not prescindible but
| is relative.  A symbol is a representation whose essential Quality
| and Relation are both unprescindible -- the Quality being Imputed
| and the Relation ideal.  Thus there are three kinds of Quality
|
|    Internal Quality (Quality proper) --
|       the Quality of an Equiparant and Likeness
|    External Quality --
|       the Quality of a Disquiparant and Index
|    Imputed Quality --
|       the Quality of a Symbol
|
| and two kinds of Relation
|
|    Real Relation (Relation proper) --
|       the Relation of Likeness and Index
|    Ideal Relation --
|       the Relation of a Symbol
|
| Or we may write the scheme thus
|
|            ( 'proper' or Internal
|    Quality < External
|            ( Imputed
|
|                                ( Equiparance
|             ( 'Proper' or Real <
|    Relation <                  ( Disquiparance
|             ( Ideal
|
|                         ( Likeness
|    Representation ..... < Indication
|                         ( Symbolization
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 475-476.
|
| C.S. Peirce,
|"The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis",
| Lowell Institute Lectures of 1866, pages 357-504 in:
|
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce:  A Chronological Edition',
|'Volume 1, 1857-1866', Peirce Edition Project,
| Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

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