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‘Rhema’ (pub. 18.08.13-20:49). 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-prolegomena-apology-pragmaticism-22.
Term: 
Rhema
Quote: 

By a rheme, or predicate, will here be meant a blank form of proposition which might have resulted by striking out certain parts of a proposition, and leaving a blank in the place of each, the parts stricken out being such that if each blank were filled with a proper name, a proposition (however nonsensical) would thereby be recomposed.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1906). Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism. The Monist, 16, 492-546.
References: 
CP 4.560
Date of Quote: 
1906
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