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‘Secondness’ (pub. 18.03.18-17:48). 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-mario-calderoni-0.
Term: 
Secondness
Quote: 

I find that there are in the phaneron,
[—]
2nd, elements each of which is such as it is relatively to to something over against it, regardless of any third. Such an element may also have a character in itself, a priman character, inseparable from what it is to the other. But however inseparable that priman character may be, it can be distinguished from the Secundan element, which I give to that which is such as it is to another, regardless of any third.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1905). Letters to Mario Calderoni. MS [R] L67.
References: 
MS [R] L67:17-18
Date of Quote: 
1905
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