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‘Continuous Predicate’ (pub. 09.08.17-18:29). 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-letters-lady-welby-60.
Term: 
Continuous Predicate
Quote: 

A predicate which can […] be analyzed into parts all homogeneous with the whole I call a continuous predicate. It is very important in logical analysis, because a continuous predicate obviously cannot be a compound except of continuous predicates, and thus when we have carried analysis so far as to leave only a continuous predicate, we have carried it to its ultimate elements.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (nd). Letters to Lady Welby. MS [R] L463.
References: 
SS 72
Date of Quote: 
1908-12-14
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