The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘The Basis of Pragmaticism’

Quote: 

A relation of reason is not purely dyadic: it is a relation through a sign: that is why it is dicible. Consequently the relation involved in duality is not dicible, but surd; and duality must contain as an ingredient of it a surd disquiparance.

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The double relation of equiparance which constitutes duality is surd. It may be described in words, but those words can only be understood by means of reference to certain experiences; just as a person may be told that a piece of textile fabric is a yard wide, yet can never know what is meant except through an experience immediate or mediate of a certain bar laid up in the Westminster palace.

Date: 
1906
References: 
EP 2:382-283
Citation: 
‘Duality’ (pub. 14.08.17-09:45). 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-basis-pragmaticism-35.
Posted: 
Aug 14, 2017, 09:45 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Aug 14, 2017, 09:56 by Mats Bergman