[Inquiry] Re: Ground, Idea, Prescindible

[Jon Awbrey]

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GIP.  Note 6

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| So the species of representation are three;  to wit,
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| 1.  Representations whose object is determined by its subject;
|     that is to say whose Ground is a character of the Subject.
|     If this subject is plural, of course the character must be
|     common.  Thus, if two men 'agree' to have a certain sign
|     denote certain things, that sign is a representation
|     of this kind.  Accordingly, I call this species of
|     representation 'Sign'.
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| 2.  Representations whose subject and object depend immediately upon
|     the ground and not upon any character of either.  But the ground in
|     any case must be a character of the representation which connects it
|     with subject and object.  Hence such representations are those which
|     agree immediately with both subject and object in some characters.
|     It is this sort of representation which an individual is of itself;
|     and also which a sensation is.  For a sensation agrees immediately
|     with the thing in affecting the sense and with the mind in being
|     affected by the thing.  It is this sort of representation also
|     which a picture is.  Accordingly I call this species of
|     representation 'copy'.
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| 3.  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 objects, a common character.  It is this
|     sort of representation which a 'conception' is;  and which a word is,
|     after it has once been acquired as a 'sign'.  I call this species of
|     representation 'Symbol'.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 328
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| C.S. Peirce, "Logic of the Sciences", MS 113 (1865), pp. 322-336 in:
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce:  A Chronological Edition, Vol. 1, 1857-1866',
| Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

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