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interpretant Philos.|ɪnˈtɜːprətənt| [f. interpret v. + -ant1.] Peirce's term for the effect of a proposition, or sign-series, upon its interpreter, the person who understands it; thus, the meaning, in one sense.
c1905C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1931) I. iii. 147 Now the relation of every sign to its object and interpretant is plainly a triad. a1910W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) iv. 71 The interpretants are then substituted for the sensations, which thus get rationally conceived. 1939Mind XLVIII. 480 The class of interpretations of the kind described in L will be called the interpretant of that sign. 1946C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior i. 17 The disposition of an interpreter to respond, because of the sign,..will be called an interpretant. 1947H. Reichenbach Elem. Symbolic Logic vii. 280 These psychological processes are sometimes called the interpretant of a sentence. 1964Language XL. 234 The relationship between linguistic signs and their users, the relationship which Morris calls the ‘interpretant’. |