Peirce Papers

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    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 (1839–1914)

    “The papers are delivered every day;
    I am alone and never shed a tear.”
    Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (b. 1905)