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| We found representations to be of three kinds
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<p>We found representations to be of three kinds:</p>
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|    Signs   Copies   Symbols.
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<p>Signs &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Copies &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Symbols.</p>
| By a 'copy', I mean a representation whose agreement with
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| its object depends merely upon a sameness of predicates.
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<p>By a ''copy'', I mean a representation whose agreement with its object depends merely upon a sameness of predicates.</p>
| By a 'sign', I mean a representation whose reference to
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| its object is fixed by convention.
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<p>By a ''sign'', I mean a representation whose reference to its object is fixed by convention.</p>
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| By a 'symbol', I mean one which upon being presented to the mind --
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<p>By a ''symbol'', I mean one which upon being presented to the mind &mdash; without any resemblance to its object and without any reference to a previous convention &mdash; calls up a concept.  I consider concepts, themselves, as a species of symbols.</p>
| without any resemblance to its object and without any reference to
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| a previous convention -- calls up a concept.  I consider concepts,
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<p>A symbol is subject to three conditions.  First it must represent an object, or informed and representable thing.  Second it must be a manifestation of a ''logos'', or represented and realizable form.  Third it must be translatable into another language or system of symbols.</p>
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<p>The science of the general laws of relations of symbols to logoi is general grammar. The science of the general laws of their relations to objects is logic.  And the science of the general laws of their relations to other systems of symbols is general rhetoric.</p>
| A symbol is subject to three conditions.  First it must represent an object,
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| or informed and representable thing.  Second it must be a manifestation of
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<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 257&ndash;258</p>
| a 'logos', or represented and realizable form.  Third it must be translatable
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| into another language or system of symbols.
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<p>Charles Sanders Peirce, "Harvard Lectures ''On the Logic of Science''" (1865), ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857&ndash;1866'', Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.</p>
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| The science of the general laws of relations of symbols to logoi is general grammar.
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| The science of the general laws of their relations to objects is logic.  And the
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| science of the general laws of their relations to other systems of symbols is
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| general rhetoric.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, pp. 257-258.
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| Charles Sanders Peirce, "Harvard Lectures 'On the Logic of Science'", (1865),
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|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857-1866',
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| Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.
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====LAS.  Note 10====
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