The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘On Existential Graphs’

Term: 
Proposition
Quote: 

A proposition is a symbol in which the representative element, or reason, is left vague and unexpressed, but in which the reactive element is distinctly indicated. In driving along the road with a compagnon, he points at a house and remarks, “That is a pretty house.” It is a proposition. But I make a voyage to a distant island and repeat the remark, “That is a pretty house.” “What house,” asks my interlocutor. “Oh, a house far way.” He will be right in telling me that I do not enunciate anything at all, because I do not indicate what I am talking about.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1898). On Existential Graphs. MS [R] 484
Date: 
1898
References: 
MS [R] 484:7-8
Citation: 
‘Proposition’ (pub. 05.03.18-16:20). 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-existential-graphs-4.
Posted: 
Mar 05, 2018, 16:20 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Mar 05, 2018, 16:21 by Mats Bergman