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<p>Suffice it to say that a sign endeavors to represent, in part at least, an Object, which is therefore in a sense the cause, or determinant, of the sign even if the sign represents its object falsely.  But to say that it represents its Object implies that it affects a mind, and so affects it as, in some respect, to determine in that mind something that is mediately due to the Object.  That determination of which the immediate cause, or determinant, is the Sign, and of which the mediate cause is the Object may be termed the ''Interpretant''.</p>

<p>Suffice it to say that a sign endeavors to represent, in part at least, an Object, which is therefore in a sense the cause, or determinant, of the sign even if the sign represents its object falsely.  But to say that it represents its Object implies that it affects a mind, and so affects it as, in some respect, to determine in that mind something that is mediately due to the Object.  That determination of which the immediate cause, or determinant, is the Sign, and of which the mediate cause is the Object may be termed the ''Interpretant''.</p>

 

| align="right" | C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 6.347

<p align="right">C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 6.347</p>

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