> On Nov 2, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Gary Fuhrman <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Jerry, yes, Peirce does say in many places that the structure of a rheme, or > a predicate, has a valency analogous to chemical valency. But if you look at > my statement carefully, you’ll see that it is about Peirce’s doctrine of the > Dicisign, not about the structure of a rheme. >
The analogy to covalent bonds is a very good one. The dicisign is analogous to a molecule and the subject/index or rheme is equal to the atoms with the electron gaps showing how they all fit together. However it’s an analogy that clearly works best with chemists or physicists and also breaks down with very much thinking. However I think it does illustrate how he was thinking of things. (I’m very behind in reading Peirce-L - I’ll hopefully catch up over the next couple of days)
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