Final or Normal Interpretant
" Final Interpretant is the effect the Sign would produce in any mind upon which the circumstances should permit it to work out its full effect. ... is the one Interpretative result to which every Interpreter is destined to come if the Sign is sufficiently considered. The Final Interpretant is that toward which the actual tends." (Letter to Lady Welby, SS 110-1, 1909)
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