Quote #8
The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs.
More from Charles Sanders Peirce
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- Do not block the way of inquiry.
- I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which e…
- The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.
- Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.
- Effort supposes resistance.
- By 'semiosis' I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign, its…
- Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.