The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘On the Logic of Quantity’

Term: 
Proposition
Quote: 

A term may conform to the reality or not; that is, it may signify a kind of which there are examples in the universe of discourse or it may not. It is therefore not accurate to define a proposition as which is either true or false. A proposition should be defined as that which professes to be true, or assigns a logical value to itself. The Truth is defined as that logical value which a proposition assigns to itself. Whether or not there really is such value, whether there is any truth is a question, not of definitions, but of fact.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1896). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 13
Date: 
1896
References: 
MS [R] 13:7
Citation: 
‘Proposition’ (pub. 24.03.18-15:41). 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-logic-quantity-6.
Posted: 
Mar 24, 2018, 15:41 by Mats Bergman