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Quote from ‘Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture X: Grounds of Induction’

Term: 
Universal Grammar
Quote: 

Symbols, as such, are subject to three laws one of which is the conditio sine qua non of its standing for anything, the second of its translating anything, and the third of its realizing anything. The first law is Logic, the second Universal Rhetoric, the third Universal Grammar.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1865). Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture X: Grounds of Induction. MS [W] 106; MS [R] 347
Date: 
1865
References: 
W 1:274
Citation: 
‘Universal Grammar’ (pub. 27.01.13-20:43). 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-harvard-lectures-logic-science-lecture-x-grounds-induction-0.
Posted: 
Jan 27, 2013, 20:43 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:00 by Commens Admin