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‘Ligature’ (pub. 18.03.18-17:12). 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-37.
Term: 
Ligature
Quote: 

The totality of all the lines of identity that join one another is termed a ligature. A ligature is not generally a graph, since it may be part in one area and part in another. It is said to lie within any cut which it is wholly within.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic. Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son.
References: 
Peirce, 1903, p. 22; CP 4.416
Date of Quote: 
1903
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