term, an Interpretant, that which
the sign expresses, the result which it produces in its capacity as sign.
[...]
<p>c - [...] Now the essential nature of a sign is that it mediates between
its object which is supposed to determine it and to be, in some sense,<b>
the cause of it,</b> and its meaning, or, as I prefer to say, in order
to avoid certains ambiguities, its Interpretant which is determined by
the sign, and is, in a sense, the effect of it; and which the sign represents
to flow as an influences, fr