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‘Singular’ (pub. 14.08.17-11:41). 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-singular.
Term: 
Singular
Quote: 

(1) Applicable, as a sign, to a single individual.

(2) In mathematics: a singular place upon a continuum is a place whose properties differ from those of all other places in the vicinity, so as to constitute in one aspect a discontinuity.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Singular. In J. M. Baldwin (Ed.), Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. II (pp. 533). London: Macmillan and Co.
References: 
DPP 2:533
Date of Quote: 
1902
URL: 

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