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suggest a better term. How do you think "copy" would do, Reader?

As I propose here to use the words "thought" and "thinking"
they denote objects related the one to the other as a type is related
to an instance of it. That is to say, I use the word "thought" in
such a sense that the same "thought" may occur to different
minds. It frequently happens that the distintions between the
immediate object of a type, the type itself, and its immediate
interpretant become all but evanescent, and this is
especially true of thoughts considered as a type. I think
there are slight distinctions; but I have no occasion to touch
upon them at present. I objected above to the argument that a
thought is a sign because meditation takes a dialogic form.
As vernacular speakers express it "I says to myself,