The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Detached Ideas continued and the Dispute between Nominalists and Realists’

Term: 
Medad
Quote: 

I distinguish verbs according to the numbers of their subject blanks, as medads, monads, dyads, triads, etc. A medad, or impersonal verb, is a complete assertion, like “It rains,” “you are a good girl.”

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1898). Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Detached Ideas continued and the Dispute between Nominalists and Realists. MS [R] 439
Date: 
1898
References: 
RLT 154; NEM 4:338
Citation: 
‘Medad’ (pub. 12.01.15-16:51). 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-cambridge-lectures-reasoning-and-logic-things-detached-ideas-continued-and-1.
Posted: 
Jan 12, 2015, 16:51 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Jan 12, 2015, 16:52 by Mats Bergman