Quote from "A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Proposition’ (pub. 16.03.18-11:12). 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-brief-intellectual-autobiography-charles-sanders-peirce-24.

Term:

Proposition

Quote:

…Peirce regards a proposition, by which he means the substance of a judgment considered as abstracted from the assent to it or dissent from it, a symbol which has a part by which it separately indicates its object while it also signifies this object in another way. The genus is the dicisign…

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1983). A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce. The American Journal of Semiotics, 2(1-2), 61-83.

References:

Peirce, 1983, p. 77; MS [R] L107

Date of Quote:

1904

Editorial Annotations:

This quote has been taken from Kenneth Laine Ketner's 1983 reconstruction of Peirce's 'Autobiography'. Ketner identifies the source as "variant pages" of the manuscript.

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-brief-intellectual-autobiography-charles-sanders-peirce-24