The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature’

Term: 
Categories
Quote: 

Thus, the three essential elements of a network of roads are road about a terminus, roadway-connection, and branching; and in like manner, the three fundamental categories of fact are, fact about an object, fact about two objects (relation), fact about several objects (synthetic fact).

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1885). One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature. MS [R] 901
Date: 
1885
References: 
CP 1.371
Citation: 
‘Categories’ (pub. 06.01.13-19:11). 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-one-two-three-fundamental-categories-thought-and-nature-2.
Posted: 
Jan 06, 2013, 19:11 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:01 by Commens Admin