Relative

Keyword: Relative


Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/03/2016
Quote from "The Fourth Curiosity"

A predicate of more than one blank is called a relative predicate.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/03/2016
Quote from "The Logic of Relations"

The general name which applies to a thing by virtue of its being the first correlate of a relation is called a relative.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/08/2015
Quote from "The Logic of Relatives"

Our European languages are peculiar in their marked differentiation of common nouns from verbs. Proper nouns must exist in all languages; and so must such “pronouns,” or indicative words...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/01/2015
Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra"

A rhema of more than one blank is a relative.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/09/2014
Quote from "The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism"

a relative, or relative term, is a word, phrase, or sign fit to be the predicate of an assertion but requiring the affixion of more than one subject in...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/09/2014
Quote from "Relatives"

If from any proposition having more than one subject (used to include “objects”) we strike out the indices of the subjects, as in “– praises – to –,” “– dat in matrimonium...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/09/2014
Quote from "The Logic of Relatives"

A relative […] may be defined as the equivalent of a word or phrase which, either as it is (when I term it a complete relative), or else when the verb “is...

Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1908). The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism. MS [R] 300

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1905-1e, pp. 1-65; 33-40; 38-41; 37-38; 40-43.7; plus 64 pp. of fragments running brokenly from p. 1 to p. 60.
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