Peircers,
I found the passage I was looking for:
http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003190.html
I'm thinking it may be worth redoing in a blog post
if the graphic gets too mushed over in this format.
I don't think it can be possible to sum up the essence of a symbol any more
succinctly than Peirce does here, at least, not in a purely verbal formulation,
or an almost purely verbal formulation.
Another thing that always strikes me every time I read these sections of the
Kaina Stoicheia is how closely they echo dominant themes from his early work,
especially the 1865 and 1866 lectures.
Regards,
Jon
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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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BTW, here is one of the contexts in which we took this passage up:
KS. Kaina Stoicheia
00. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-September/thread.html#3063
00. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-October/thread.html#3075
00. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/thread.html#3183
00. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/thread.html#3274
01. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-September/003063.html
02. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-September/003065.html
03. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-October/003075.html
04. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-October/003090.html
05. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003183.html
06. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003186.html
07. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003187.html
08. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003189.html
09. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003190.html
10. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003207.html
11. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003208.html
12. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003222.html
13. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003253.html
14. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003261.html
15. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003264.html
16. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-November/003265.html
17. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/003274.html
18. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/003277.html
19. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/003278.html
20. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/003279.html
21. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/003283.html
22. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/003359.html
23. http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-December/003360.html
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