List: > On Jul 4, 2018, at 12:27 PM, g...@gnusystems.ca wrote: > > [[ If we take any proposition, say > > A sinner kills a saint > > and if we erase portions of it, so as to leave it a blank form of > proposition, the blanks being such that if every one of them is filled with a > proper name, a proposition will result, such as > > ______ kills a saint > A sinner kills ______ > ______ kills ______ > > where Cain and Abel might for example fill the blanks, then such a blank > form, as well as the complete proposition, is called a rheme …. If it has one > blank it is called a monad rheme, if two a dyad, if three a triad, if none a > medad (from μηδέν). ] Lowell Lecture 2 ] > > [[ By a rheme, or predicate, will here be meant a blank form of proposition > which might have resulted by striking out certain parts of a proposition, and > leaving a blank in the place of each, the parts stricken out being such that > if each blank were filled with a proper name, a proposition (however > nonsensical) would thereby be recomposed. ] CP 4.560 (1906)] > >
One can not help but notice the highly unusual tension between classical usage of terms when one compares: > ______ kills ______ > > and > [[ By a rheme, or predicate, will here be meant a blank form of proposition > which might have resulted by striking out certain parts of a proposition, and > leaving a blank in the place of each, the parts stricken out being such that > if each blank were filled with a proper name, > > The contrast between the classical meaning of a predicate and a rheme is remarkable. Cheers Jerry
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