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====Excerpt 15. Peirce (CE 1, 174–175)====
====Excerpt 15. Peirce (CE 1, 174–175)====
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<p>But not to follow this subject too far, we have now established three species of representations: ''copies'', ''signs'', and ''symbols''; of the last of which only logic treats. A second approximation to a definition of it then will be, the science of symbols in general and as such. But this definition is still too broad; this might, indeed, form the definition of a certain science which would be a branch of Semiotic or the general science of representations which might be called Symbolistic, and of this logic would be a species. But logic only considers symbols from a particular point of view.</p>
<p>But not to follow this subject too far, we have now established three species of representations: ''copies'', ''signs'', and ''symbols''; of the last of which only logic treats. A second approximation to a definition of it then will be, the science of symbols in general and as such. But this definition is still too broad; this might, indeed, form the definition of a certain science which would be a branch of Semiotic or the general science of representations which might be called Symbolistic, and of this logic would be a species. But logic only considers symbols from a particular point of view.</p>
<p>At the same time ''symbolistic'' in general gives a trivium consisting of Universal Grammar, Logic, and Universal Rhetoric, using this last term to signify the science of the formal conditions of intelligibility of symbols.</p>
<p>At the same time ''symbolistic'' in general gives a trivium consisting of Universal Grammar, Logic, and Universal Rhetoric, using this last term to signify the science of the formal conditions of intelligibility of symbols.</p>
<p>C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 174–175</p>
<p align="right">C.S. Peirce, ''Chronological Edition'', CE 1, 174–175</p>
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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, 1857–1866'', Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.</p>
<p>Charles Sanders Peirce, “Harvard Lectures ''On the Logic of Science''” (1865), ''Writings of Charles S. Peirce : A Chronological Edition, Volume 1, 1857–1866'', Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.</p>
====Excerpt 16. Peirce (CE 1, 179)====
====Excerpt 16. Peirce (CE 1, 179)====