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→Excerpt 8. Peirce (CP 5.448, n. 1)
<p>Another advantage of this definition is that it saves us from the blunder of thinking that a sign is indeterminate simply because there is much to which it makes no reference; that, for example, to say, "C.S. Peirce wrote this article", is indeterminate because it does not say what the color of the ink used was, who made the ink, how old the father of the ink-maker when his son was born, nor what the aspect of the planets was when that father was born. By making the definition turn upon the interpretation, all that is cut off.</p>
<p>Another advantage of this definition is that it saves us from the blunder of thinking that a sign is indeterminate simply because there is much to which it makes no reference; that, for example, to say, "C.S. Peirce wrote this article", is indeterminate because it does not say what the color of the ink used was, who made the ink, how old the father of the ink-maker when his son was born, nor what the aspect of the planets was when that father was born. By making the definition turn upon the interpretation, all that is cut off.</p>
<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers;'', CP 5.448, n. 1</p>
<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 5.448, n. 1</p>
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