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‘Character’ (pub. 07.03.16-15:10). 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-21.
Term: 
Character
Quote: 

The possibility of any definite predicate being true is the being of a corresponding character. That is the signification of the logical term “character.” A character belongs to whatever singulars the corresponding predicate could truly be asserted of; and a character which belongs to anything existent is thereby said itself to exist, and to exist in the singulars of which the predicate is true.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). The Fourth Curiosity. MS [R] 200.
References: 
MS [R] 200:111
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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