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Character

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce
Character
1895 [c.] | Of the Nature of Measurement | CP 7.280

A character is a possible fact regarded as concerning a particular thing or things.

1907 | The Fourth Curiosity | MS [R] 200:111

The possibility of any definite predicate being true is the being of a corresponding character. That is the signification of the logical term “character.” A character belongs to whatever singulars the corresponding predicate could truly be asserted of; and a character which belongs to anything existent is thereby said itself to exist, and to exist in the singulars of which the predicate is true.