[Inquiry] Re: Logic Of The Sciences

[Jon Awbrey]

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LOTS.  Note 11

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| We may take as an example the division of representations
| made in the last chapter.  Representation is the character
| of standing to a subject for an object upon some ground.
| The character which must belong to that character was the
| quaesitum.  The condition was that the division should
| concern representation as representation that is that
| the character required should be a relation between the
| essential elements of representation.  Now the Ground is
| the only element of representation which is a relation;
| it is an agreement and may lie in the subject, in the
| object, or between them.  This gives our three species.
|
| In the case, which now comes before us, which is the highest
| logical division of symbols, the conditions are different.
| They are two;  first that symbols should be considered in
| regard to their reference to objects and second that this
| reference should be considered in respect to its ground.
| Since the object is mediately or immediately symbolized
| by every subject of its symbol;  and since also the
| ground of the symbol is a character of the object,
| every symbol refers to its subject and ground not
| only immediately but also mediately through its
| object.  It thus has an objective reference,
| not merely to its object in itself, but
| also to its subject and ground.
|
| We may then call the object in itself prescinded from
| subject and ground the 'matter', the ground considered
| as in the object the 'form', and the subject considered
| as referring to the object, the 'entelechy'.
|
| Now the function of a symbol is to stand for its object
| to its subject.  Hence its function in respect to the
| subject is to stand for its object.  But a function
| in respect to a subject is a use;  so the use of
| a symbol is to stand for its object.
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 330-331
|
| 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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