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Universe of Discourse
Name
À Posteriori Inference (
var.
)
À Posteriori Reasoning
Abduction
Acritical Inference
Action
Actisign
Activity (
var.
)
Actual (
var.
)
Actuality
Affirmation
Agapasm
Agapastic Evolution (
var.
)
Agapasticism
Agapism
Aggregation
Altersense
Analogy
Analytic
Anancasm
Anancastic Evolution (
var.
)
Anancasticism
Anancism
Antecept
Antecipuum
Anthropomorphism
Applied Mathematics
Area (
var.
)
Area of Cut
Argument
Argumentation
Aristotelicity
Assent
Assertion
Association
Association by Contiguity
Association by Interest
Association by Relational Contiguity
Association by Relational Resemblance
Association by Resemblance
Association by Similarity (
var.
)
Association of Ideas
Associational Suggestion (
var.
)
Associational Suggestion of Belief
Axiagastics
Axiom
Being: Modes of
Belief
Blank
Breadth (
var.
)
Calculus
Categorical Resolution
Categories
Cenopythagorean Categories (
var.
)
Cenoscopy
Chance
Character
Class
Classificatory Science
Coenoscopic (
var.
)
Coenoscopy (
var.
)
Cognition
Collateral Experience
Collateral Observation
Collection
Colligation
Cominterpretant (
var.
)
Commens
Commind (
var.
)
Common Ground
Communicational Interpretant
Community
Complete Argument
Complete Sign
Composition
Comprehensive (
var.
)
Concept
Conditional Habit
Conditional Idealism
Conditional Resolution
Conduct
Consciousness
Continuity
Continuous Predicate
Continuum
Convention [in Logic]
Copula
Copy [in Semeiotic]
Corollarial Consequence
Corollarial Deduction (
var.
)
Corollarial Demonstration (
var.
)
Corollarial Reasoning
Corollary
Correlate
Correspondent
Critic
Critical Common-Sensism
Critical Ethics
Critical Logic (
var.
)
Crude Induction
Cut
Deduction
Definite
Definition
Degenerate Secondness
Degenerate Secundanity (
var.
)
Delome
Depth (
var.
)
Descriptive Science
Designation
Desire
Diagram
Dialogism
Dicent (
var.
)
Dicent Sign (
var.
)
Dicible Relation
Dicisign
Dimension
Ding an sich (
var.
)
Discrimination
Disquiparance
Dissociation
Distinction
Dot
Double Cut
Doubt
Duality
Dyad
Dyadic Relation
Dyadosemeion
Dynamic Interpretant (
var.
)
Dynamical Interpretant
Dynamical Object
Dynamoid Object (
var.
)
Economy of Research
Effectual Interpretant
Efficient Causality (
var.
)
Efficient Causation
Efficient Cause
Effort
Elements
Emotional Interpretant
Enclosure of Cut
End (
var.
)
Energetic Interpretant
Ens Rationis
Entelechy
Entire Graph
Entitative Graph
Equiparance
Essence
Essential Breadth
Essential Depth
Essential Logical Possibility (
var.
)
Essential Necessity
Essential Possibility
Esthetics
Ethics
Eventual Interpretant
Exact Logic
Existence
Existential Graph
Existential Interpretant (
var.
)
Existential Relation
Experience
External
Externality (
var.
)
Fact
Fallacy
Fallibilism
Falsity
Famisign
Feeling
Fictile (
var.
)
Fictive (
var.
)
Figment
Final Causality (
var.
)
Final Causation
Final Cause
Final Interpretant
Final Logical Interpretant
Finiosity
First Impression of Sense
First Intention
First Rule of Reason
First [as a Category] (
var.
)
First-Intentional Relation
Firstness
Form
Formal Cause
Formal Grammar
Formal Logic
Formal Logical Possibility (
var.
)
Formal Rhetoric
General
General Grammar
General Metaphysics (
var.
)
General Rhetoric
Generality (
var.
)
Generalized Icon
Generalized Percept
Genuine Secondness
Genuine Secundanity (
var.
)
Genuine Thirdness
Grammatica Speculativa (
var.
)
Graph
Graph-instance (
var.
)
Graph-replica
Ground
Guiding Principle (
var.
)
Habit
Habit-taking
Habituation
Hecceity
Heuretic Science
Hook
Hyperbolic Philosophy
Hypoicon
Hyposeme (
var.
)
Hypostatic Abstraction
Hypothesis [as a form of reasoning]
Hypothetic Inference (
var.
)
Icon
Idealism
Ideoscopy
Idioscopic (
var.
)
Idioscopy
Il Lume Naturale
Image
Immediate Inference
Immediate Interpretant
Immediate Object
Imputed Relation
Indefinite
Index
Individual
Individuality
Induction
Inference
Informant Index (
var.
)
Information
Informational Index
Informed Breadth
Informed Depth
Initial Interpretant
Inner World
Inquiry
Instance (
var.
)
Instinct
Intentional Interpretant
Interpretant
Interprete (
var.
)
Intuition
Judgment
Kanticity
Kind
Law
Law of Association
Law of Habit
Law of Mind
Leading Principle
Learning
Legisign
Ligature
Likelihood (
var.
)
Likeness
Line of Identity
Logic
Logic of Events
Logic of Relatives
Logic Proper (
var.
)
Logic [in the narrow sense]
Logica Docens
Logica Utens
Logical Analysis
Logical Breadth
Logical Critic (
var.
)
Logical Definition
Logical Depth
Logical Diagram (
var.
)
Logical Distinctness
Logical Graph
Logical Interpretant
Logical Leading Principle
Logical Machine
Logical Possibility
Logical Principle
Logical Reasoning
Logical Simplicity
Logical Syntax
Logical Truth
Logical Universe
Logical Validity
Long Run
Material Cause
Material Logic
Mathematical Reasoning
Mathematical Truth
Mathematics
Matter
Maxim of Pragmaticism (
var.
)
Maxim of Pragmatism
Medad
Medisense
Medium of Communication
Memory
Mental
Metaphor
Metaphysical Possibility
Metaphysics
Methodeutic
Methodic (
var.
)
Middle Interpretant
Mind
Modal Relation
Modality
Monad
Monadosemeion
Monstrative Index
Multitude
Musement
Naïve Interpretant (
var.
)
Name [in Semeiotic]
Natural Class
Natural Classification
Natural Kind
Natural Light (
var.
)
Necessary (
var.
)
Necessary Deduction
Necessitarianism
Necessitation
Necessity
Nominal Definition
Nominalism
Nomological Science (
var.
)
Nomology
Normal Interpretant
Normative Science
Nota Notae
Object
Objective Idealism
Objective Interpretant (
var.
)
Objective Logic
Objective Object (
var.
)
Objectivity
Observation
Obsistent Logic (
var.
)
Ontology
Originalian Logic (
var.
)
Outer World
Partial Graph
Pedagogy
Percept
Perception
Perceptual Fact
Perceptual Judgment
Percipuum
Perfect Continuum
Person
Phaneron
Phaneroscopy
Pheme
Phemic Sheet (
var.
)
Phenomenology
Phenomenon
Phenoscopy
Philosophical Criticism
Philosophy
Physical Metaphysics
Physical Science
Physiognosy (
var.
)
Plausibility
Play of Musement (
var.
)
Ponecept
Ponecipuum
Positive Philosophy (
var.
)
Possibility
Possible (
var.
)
Postulate
Potentiality
Potisign
Practical Belief
Practical Retroduction
Practical Science
Practice
Pragmaticism
Pragmatism
Pragmatist
Precept
Precision (
var.
)
Precisive Abstraction (
var.
)
Precission (
var.
)
Predicate
Predication
Prescission
Presumption [as a form of reasoning]
Presumptive Inference
Priman Element (
var.
)
Primisense
Probability
Probable Deduction
Probable Inference
Problem
Proof
Proper Name
Proposition
Pseudo-continuum
Pseudo-priman
Pseudograph
Psychical Law (
var.
)
Psychical Metaphysics
Psychical Science
Psychognosy (
var.
)
Pure Grammar
Pure Icon
Pure Index
Pure Logic
Pure Mathematics
Pure Rhetoric
Purpose
Quale (
var.
)
Qualisign
Qualitative Induction
Quality
Quality of Feeling
Quantitative Induction
Quasi-interpreter
Quasi-mind
Quasi-utterer
Quota
Ratiocination
Rational
Rational Inquiry
Rational Interpretant
Rationality (
var.
)
Reagent
Real
Real Definition
Real Object
Real Relation
Realism
Reality (
var.
)
Reason
Reasoning
Reasoning Machine
Reasoning-power (
var.
)
Reference
Referential Relation
Regulative Principle
Relate
Relation
Relation In Re
Relation of Reason
Relationship
Relative
Relative Predicate (
var.
)
Relative Rhema (
var.
)
Relative Term (
var.
)
Religious Metaphysics (
var.
)
Replica
Representamen
Representament (
var.
)
Representation
Representationism
Rerelation
Resemblance
Resolve
Retroduction
Retrospective Science
Reviewing Science (
var.
)
Rhema
Rheme (
var.
)
Rhetorica Speculativa (
var.
)
Rim
Rogate Interpretant (
var.
)
Scholastic Realism
Science
Science of Discovery (
var.
)
Science of Review
Scientific Retroduction
Scribing
Scroll
Second Intention
Second Intentional Logic
Second [as a category] (
var.
)
Second-Intentional Relation
Secondness
Secundan Element (
var.
)
Seed
Selective
Selective Pronoun (
var.
)
Self
Seme
Semeiosy (
var.
)
Semeiotic
Semeiotics (
var.
)
Semeotic (
var.
)
Semiosis
Semiotic (
var.
)
Sensation
Sheet of Assertion
Sign
Singular
Singularity (
var.
)
Sinsign
Special Science (
var.
)
Speculative Critic (
var.
)
Speculative Grammar
Speculative Rhetoric
Spike
Spot
Stecheotic
Stoicheiology (
var.
)
Suadisign
Subindex
Subject
Subject [in representation]
Substance
Substantial Breadth
Substantial Depth
Substantial Necessity
Substantial Possibility
Substantive Logical Possibility (
var.
)
Substantive Possibility (
var.
)
Suggestion
Suggestion by Contiguity
Suggestion by Resemblance
Suisign (
var.
)
Sumisign
Surd Relation
Syllogism
Symbol
Synechism
Synthetic Philosophy
Systematic Science (
var.
)
Tactic Science (
var.
)
Tagmatic Science (
var.
)
Teleology
Tendency
Teridentity
Term
Tertiality (
var.
)
Tertian Element (
var.
)
Theorem
Theorematic Consequence
Theorematic Deduction (
var.
)
Theorematic Demonstration (
var.
)
Theorematic Reasoning
Theoretical Belief
Theoretical Science
Theoric Demonstration (
var.
)
Theoric Step
Theoric Transformation
Theory
Thing
Thing-in-itself
Thinking
Third [as a category] (
var.
)
Thirdness
Thisness
Thought
Time
Token
Token [as General Sign]
Tone
Total Graph
Transuasional Logic (
var.
)
Triad
Triadic Relation
Triadomany
Triadosemeion
Trichotomic
Truth
Tuone (
var.
)
Tychasm
Tychastic Evolution (
var.
)
Tychasticism
Tychism
Type
Uberty
Ultimate Intellectual Interpretant (
var.
)
Ultimate Logical Interpretant
Universal Grammar
Universal Rhetoric
Universe of Discourse
Uttering
Vague
Vagueness (
var.
)
Verisimilitude
Virtual
Volition
Will
Would-be
