Published on Commens (http://www.commens.org)

Home > Quote from "A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic"
Commens
Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce
‘Area of Cut’ (pub. 18.03.18-16:53). 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-31.
Term: 
Area of Cut
Quote: 

A cut is not a graph-replica. A cut drawn upon the sheet of assertion severs the surface it encloses, called the area of the cut, from the sheet of assertion; so that the area of a cut is no part of the sheet of assertion.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son.
References: 
Peirce, 1903, pp. 20-21; CP 4.414
Date of Quote: 
1903
URL: 

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-syllabus-certain-topics-logic-31