Famous quotes containing the words interpretant and/or sign:
“A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody, that is, creates in the mind of that person an equivalent sign, or perhaps a more developed sign. That sign which it creates I call the interpretant of the first sign. The sign stands for something, its object. It stands for that object, not in all respects, but in reference to a sort of idea, which I have sometimes called the ground of the representamen.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914)
“Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonnato prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? Its the sign of the misogynist.”
—Christina Stead (19021983)
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