Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Dicible Relation’ (pub. 14.08.17-10:09). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-basis-pragmaticism-3.

Term:

Dicible Relation

Quote:

…the only kind of relation which could be veritably described to a person who had no experience of it is a relation of reason. A relation of reason is not purely dyadic: it is a relation through a sign: that is why it is dicible. Consequently the relation involved in duality is not dicible, but surd; and duality must contain as an ingredient of it a surd disquiparance.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1906). The Basis of Pragmaticism. MS [R] 283.

References:

EP 2:382-283

Date of Quote:

1906

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-basis-pragmaticism-3