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‘Area of Cut’ (pub. 18.03.18-15:08). 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-19.
Term: 
Area of Cut
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. The whole space within the cut (but not comprising the cut itself) shall be termed the area of the cut.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son.
References: 
Peirce, 1903, p. 16; CP 4.399
Date of Quote: 
1903
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