A Sop To Cerberus - Charles Sanders Peirce

Commens Peirce Dictionary: Sign: ""I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former. My insertion of "upon a person" is a sop to Cerberus, because I despair of making my own broader conception understood." (A Letter to Lady Welby, SS 80-81, 1908)"

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A late stab at sign. The referenced page contains other stabs and leads to still others. It is part of a quite comprehensive Peirce glossary of many terms.

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