SUO: Re: Determination
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| Of triadic Being the multitude of forms
| is so terrific that I have usually shrunk
| from the task of enumerating them; and for
| the present purpose such an enumeration would
| be worse than superfluous: it would be a great
| inconvenience. In another paper, I intend to
| give the formal definition of a sign, which I
| have worked out by arduous and long labour.
| I will omit the explanation of it here.
| Suffice it to say that a sign endeavors
| to represent, in part at least, an Object,
| which is therefore in a sense the cause, or
| determinant, of the sign even if the sign
| represents its object falsely. But to say
| that it represents its Object implies that
| it affects a mind, and so affects it as,
| in some respect, to determine in that mind
| something that is mediately due to the Object.
| That determination of which the immediate cause,
| or determinant, is the Sign, and of which the
| mediate cause is the Object may be termed the
| 'Interpretant' ...
|
| Charles Sanders Peirce, CP 6.347
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