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‘Relationship’ (pub. 11.09.14-13:15). 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-fourth-curiosity-10.
Term: 
Relationship
Quote: 

I have, since 1870, written much about the logic of relations. In those writings, I have usually restricted the terms “relations” and “relationships” to existential relations and relationships. By a relationship I understand the conception of a fact about a set of things abstracted from the representation of the things themselves or, in other words, a predicate which requires more than one subject to complete a proposition, or conception of a fact.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). The Fourth Curiosity. MS [R] 200.
References: 
CP 6.318
Date of Quote: 
1907
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