Quote from "Sketch of Dichotomic Mathematics"

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‘Corollary’ (pub. 20.11.15-10:02). 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-sketch-dichotomic-mathematics-7.

Term:

Corollary

Quote:

Any Corollary (as I shall use the term) would be a proposition deduced directly from propositions already established without the use of any other construction than one necessarily suggested in apprehending the enunciation of the proposition; and any such proposition would be a Corollary.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1904). Sketch of Dichotomic Mathematics. MS [R] 4.

References:

NEM 4:288

Date of Quote:

1904

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-sketch-dichotomic-mathematics-7