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Term: 
Triad
Quote: 

Let me remind you that three things do not necessarily make a genuine triad or have what I call threeness, except in a modified and reduced sense. By a genuine triad I mean three things in a genuine triple relation which is not a mere mixture of dual relations.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1897-8). Abstracts of 8 Lectures. MS [R] 942.
References: 
NEM 4:137
Date of Quote: 
1897-8
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