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In effect, then, the interpretant is a second signifier of the object, only one that now has an overtly mental status.

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The interpretant: these two facts are more a sign of the collapse of the dollar than of the rise in the price of oil due to supply and demand.

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Roberts should put into his model two central facts, and one important interpretant.

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What exactly Peirce means by the interpretant is difficult to pin down.

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Third, the interpretant of a sign, by virtue of the very definition Peirce gives of the sign-relation, must itself be a sign, and a sign moreover of the very same object that is (or: was) represented by the (original) sign.

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That is to say, the interpretant stands in the representing relation to the same object represented by the original representamen, and thus represents it to yet another interpretant.

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But, merely in being a sign of the original object, this second sign must itself have (Peirce uses the word “determine”) an interpretant, which then in turn is a new, third sign of the object, and again is one with an overtly mental status.

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The interpretant of a sign is said by Peirce to be that to which the sign represents the object.

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The sign relation is the special species of the representing relation that obtains whenever the first interpretant (and consequently each member of the whole infinite sequence of interpretants) has a status that is mental, i.e. (roughly) is a cognition of a mind.

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The other two terms in this relation are called the object and the interpretant.

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