‘Subject’ (pub. 14.08.17-12:03). 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-subject-logic.
Quote:
That part of a proposition whose function it is to ‘indicate,’ or denote, what it is of which the proposition is a sign […], and which it signifies, or indirectly images, in the predicate.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Subject (in logic). In J. M. Baldwin (Ed.), Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. II (pp. 609-610). London: Macmillan and Co.
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-subject-logic