om the object. [...]
<p>f - I am now prepared to risk an attempt at defining a sign, -since
in scientific inquiry, as in other enterprises, the maxim holds : nothing
hazard, nothing gain. I will say that a sign is anything, of whatsoever
mode of being, which mediates between an object and an interpretant; since
it is both determined by the object relatively to the interpretant, and
determining the interpretant in reference to the object, in such wise <b>as
to cause the interpretant to be determined by the o