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Term: 
Medad
Quote: 

A rhema containing one blank I call a monad, that containing two a dyad, etc. An entire proposition I term a medad, from μηδέν.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). Lectures on Pragmatism [R]. MS [R] 316.
References: 
PPM 235; EP 2:221
Date of Quote: 
1903
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