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The first category, then, is Quality of Feeling, or whatever is such as it is positively and regardless of aught else.

— Charles Sanders Peirce Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)

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The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.

Essays in Zoosemiotics (1990)

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

Collected Papers (1931)

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere.

Collected Papers (1931)

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

On The Algebra of Logic (1885)

It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis.

Pragmatism (1907)

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