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