[Inquiry] Re: Kaina Stoicheia

[Jon Awbrey]

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KS.  Note 9

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| We now come to the genuine sign for which I propose the
| technical designation 'symbol', following a use of that
| word not infrequent among logicians including Aristotle.
|
| A symbol is defined as a sign which is fit to serve
| as such simply because it will be so interpreted.
|
| To recapitulate:
|
|               )                                          ( it possesses
|    An icon    }                                          ( the quality
|               )                                          ( signified.
|               )                                          (
|               )                                          ( it is in real
|               )                                          ( reaction
|    An index   > is a sign fit to be used as such because < with the
|               )                                          ( object
|               )                                          ( denoted.
|               )                                          (
|               )                                          ( it determines
|    A symbol   )                                          ( the interpretant
|               )                                          ( sign.
|
| C.S. Peirce, ["Kaina Stoicheia"], NEM 4, 243
|
| C.S. Peirce, ["Kaina Stoicheia"], MS 517 (1904), pp. 235-263 in:
| Carolyn Eisele (ed.), 'The New Elements of Mathematics by
| Charles S. Peirce, Volume 4, Mathematical Philosophy',
| Mouton, The Hague, 1976.
|
| Cf. "New Elements", pp. 300-324 in 'The Essential Peirce, Volume 2 (1893-1913)',
| Peirce Edition Project (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1998.

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