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Character
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1895 [c.] | Of the Nature of Measurement | CP 7.280

A character is a possible fact regarded as concerning a particular thing or things.

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1907 | The Fourth Curiosity | MS [R] 200:111

The possibility of any definite predicate being true is the being of a corresponding character. That is the signification of the logical term “character.” A character belongs to whatever singulars the corresponding predicate could truly be asserted of; and a character which belongs to anything existent is thereby said itself to exist, and to exist in the singulars of which the predicate is true.

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‘Character’. Term 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/term/character/page, 06.02.2023.
See also
Kind | Predicate