‘Cut’ (pub. 18.03.18-15:05). 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-syllabus-certain-topics-logic-18.
Quote:
By a Cut shall be understood to mean a self-returning linear separation (naturally represented by a fine-drawn or peculiarly colored line) which severs all that it encloses from the sheet of assertion on which it stands itself, or from any other area on which it stands itself.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1903). A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son.
References:
Peirce, 1903, p. 16; CP 4.399
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-syllabus-certain-topics-logic-18