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‘Predicate’ (pub. 07.03.16-13:25). 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-15.
Term: 
Predicate
Quote: 

When a blank form is such that the result of determining each blank in it to express a proper name is to reconvert it into a proposition, however silly, that blank form is termed a rheme or predicate.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). The Fourth Curiosity. MS [R] 200.
References: 
MS [R] 200:100
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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