‘Seed’ (pub. 14.08.17-09:00). 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-nomenclature-and-divisions-dyadic-relations-7.
Quote:
By a seed (granum) of an existential relation is to be understood an existing individual which not only stands in that relation to some correlate, but to which also some relate stands in that relation.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1903). Nomenclature and Divisions of Dyadic Relations. MS [R] 539.
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-nomenclature-and-divisions-dyadic-relations-7