The interpreter of a sign is an organism; the interpretant is the habit
of the organism to respond, because of the sign vehicle, to absent
objects which are relevant to a present problematic situation as if they
were present. In virtue of semiosis an organism takes account of
relevant properties of absent objects, or unobserved properties of
objects which are present, and in this lies the general instrumental
significance of ideas. Given the sign vehicle as an object of response,
the organism expects a situation of such and such a kind and, on the
basis of this expectation, can partially prepare itself in advance for
what may develop. The response to things through the intermediacy of
signs is thus biologically a continuation of the same process in which
the distance senses have taken precedence over the contact senses in the
control of conduct in higher animal forms; such animals through sight,
hearing, and smell are already responding to distant parts of the
environment through certain properties of objects functioning as signs
for other properties. This process of taking account of a constantly
more remote environment is simply continued in the complex process of
semiosis made possible by language, the object taken account of no
longer needing to be perceptually present.
- Charles Morris
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