representamen

Noun

representamen (plural representamens or representamina)

1. A representation; a thing serving to represent something.
   • The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by...1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, page 318
   • A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.circa 1897: Charles Sanders Peirce [aut.] and Justus Buchler [ed.], Philosophical Writings of Peirce, chapter 7: “Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs”, § 1: “What is a Sign? Three Divisions of...