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<p>Every word is a symbol. Every sentence is a symbol. Every book is a symbol. Every representamen depending upon conventions is a symbol. Just as a photograph is an index having an icon incorporated into it, that is, excited in the mind by its force, so a symbol may have an icon or an index incorporated into it, that is, the active law that it is may require its interpretation to involve the calling up of an image, or a composite photograph of many images of past experiences, as ordinary common nouns and verbs do; or it may require its interpretation to refer to the actual surrounding circumstances of the occasion of its embodiment, like such words as 'that', 'this', 'I', 'you', 'which', 'here', 'now', 'yonder', etc. Or it may be pure symbol, neither 'iconic' nor 'indicative', like the words 'and', 'or', 'of', etc.</p>
<p>Thus the mode of being of the symbol is different from that of the icon and from that of the index. An icon has such being as belongs to past experience. It exists only as an image in the mind. An index has the being of present experience. The being of a symbol consists in the real fact that something surely will be experienced if certain conditions be satisfied. Namely, it will influence the thought and conduct of its interpreter.</p>
<p>Every word is a symbol. Every sentence is a symbol. Every book is a symbol. Every representamen depending upon conventions is a symbol. Just as a photograph is an index having an icon incorporated into it, that is, excited in the mind by its force, so a symbol may have an icon or an index incorporated into it, that is, the active law that it is may require its interpretation to involve the calling up of an image, or a composite photograph of many images of past experiences, as ordinary common nouns and verbs do; or it may require its interpretation to refer to the actual surrounding circumstances of the occasion of its embodiment, like such words as ''that'', ''this'', ''I'', ''you'', ''which'', ''here'', ''now'', ''yonder'', etc. Or it may be pure symbol, neither ''iconic'' nor ''indicative'', like the words ''and'', ''or'', ''of'', etc.</p>
<p>(Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 4.447)</p>
<p>(Peirce, ''Collected Papers'', CP 4.447)</p>