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Jump to navigationJump to search<div style="margin-left:5%; margin-right:5%"> <p style="margin-bottom:0px">Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive power, the sunflower would become a Representamen of the sun.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0px">Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive power, the sunflower would become a Representamen of the sun.</p>
<p>Thus, if a sunflower, in turning towards the sun, becomes by that very act fully capable, without further condition, of reproducing a sunflower which turns in precisely corresponding ways toward the sun, and of doing so with the same reproductive power, the sunflower would become a Representamen of the sun. (C.S. Peirce, “Syllabus” (<i>c</i>. 1902), <i>Collected Papers</i>, CP 2.274).</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px; text-align:right">— C.S. Peirce, <i>Collected Papers</i>, CP 2.274</p>
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In his picturesque illustration of a sign relation, along with his tracing of a corresponding sign process, or <i>[[semiosis]]</i>, Peirce uses the technical term <i>representamen</i> for his concept of a sign, but the shorter word is precise enough, so long as one recognizes that its meaning in a particular theory of signs is given by a specific definition of what it means to be a sign.
In his picturesque illustration of a sign relation, along with his tracing of a corresponding sign process, or <i>semiosis</i>, Peirce uses the technical term <i>representamen</i> for his concept of a sign, but the shorter word is precise enough, so long as one recognizes its meaning in a particular theory of signs is given by a specific definition of what it means to be a sign.
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