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Quotes from On The Algebra of Logic — Charles Sanders Peirce

1839–1914 United States

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A sign is in a conjoint relation to the thing denoted and to the mind.

On The Algebra of Logic (1885)

The actual world cannot be distinguished from a world of imagination by any description. Hence the need of pronoun and indices, and the more complicated the subject the greater the need of them.

On The Algebra of Logic (1885)

Such signs are always abstract and general, because habits are general rules to which the organism has become subjected.

On The Algebra of Logic (1885)

Any character or proposition either concerns one subject, two subjects, or a plurality of subjects.

On The Algebra of Logic (1885)

If the sign were not related to its object except by the mind thinking of them separately, it would not fulfil the function of a sign at all.

On The Algebra of Logic (1885)

I call a sign which stands for something merely because it resembles it, an icon. Icons are so completely substituted for their objects as hardly to be distinguished from them.

On The Algebra of Logic (1885)

Tokens alone do not state what is the subject of discourse; and this can, in fact, not be described in general terms; it can only be indicated. The actual world cannot be distinguished from a world of imagination by any description. Hence the need of pronoun and indices, and the more complicated the subject the greater the need of them.

On The Algebra of Logic (1885)

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