Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Proposition’ (pub. 13.01.15-11:11). 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-logical-tracts-no-1-existential-graphs-5.

Term:

Proposition

Quote:

An informant index is a proposition. For one cannot better define a proposition (as distinguished from the assertion whereby one assumes responsibility for its truth) than as a representation of which one part serves, directly or indirectly, as an index of its object, while the other part excites in the mind an image of the same object.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1903 [c.]). Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs. MS [R] 491.

References:

MS [R] 491:5

Date of Quote:

1903 [c.]

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-logical-tracts-no-1-existential-graphs-5