3 Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes on Semiotics

Charles Sanders Peirce quotes on semiotics

6. 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 effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

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

13. To say, therefore, that thought cannot happen in an instant, but requires a time, is but another way of saying that every thought must be interpreted in another, or that all thought is in signs.