Universal Rhetoric   

Universal Rhetoric

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce
Universal Rhetoric
1865 | Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science. Lecture X: Grounds of Induction | W 1:274

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.