Every rhema whose blanks may be filled by signs of ordinary individuals, but which signifies only what is true of symbols of those individuals, without any reference to qualities of sense, is termed a rhema of second intention. For second intention is thought about thought as symbol. Second intentions and certain entia rationis demand the special attention of the logician.
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