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Formal Grammar
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1867 | On a New List of Categories | W 2:57; CP 1.559

We come, therefore, to this, that logic treats of the reference of symbols in general to their objects. In this view it is one of a trivium of conceivable sciences. The first would treat of the formal conditions of symbols having meaning, that is of the reference of symbols in general to their grounds or imputed characters, and this might be called formal grammar; the second, logic, would treat of the formal conditions of the truth of symbols; and the third would treat of the formal conditions of the force of symbols, or their power of appealing to a mind, that is, of their reference in general to interpretants, and this might be called formalĀ rhetoric.

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‘Formal Grammar’. 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/formal-grammar/page, 31.03.2023.
Near-synonyms
Analytic | Speculative Grammar | General Grammar | Universal Grammar | Stecheotic | Logical Syntax | Pure Grammar | Elements
See also
Critic | Methodeutic | Formal Rhetoric | General Rhetoric | Universal Rhetoric | Speculative Rhetoric | Pure Rhetoric