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I now come to the Second Part of what I was to state; namely, how the reasoning characteristic of each Stage of inquiry is logically valid; that is, how we are assured that it will lead to the truth. For Deduction this was correctly stated by Kant. The conclusion merely explicates a part of the meaning of the copulate premiss. We always think in Signs, meaning by a Sign anything existing (substantially, dynamically, or by imputation) in either of the Three Universes of Experience, which being affected, directly or indirectly, by something else called its Object, in either Universe, in its turn so affects a person that he is, thereby and therein, himself mediately affected by the Object of the sign. The affect upon the person, I call the Interpretant of the Sign. If the latter is a sympathetic ejaculation the Interpretant is a Feeling. If the Sign be a command (as an Interrogatory is) the Interpretant is a single Action. If the Sign is Rational, the Interpretant is a thought, or mental sign; for it is evident