List: > On Jul 5, 2018, at 7:38 AM, g...@gnusystems.ca wrote: > > In your other post, you wrote, “A Rheme not only must have at least one blank > empty, but also at least one blank filled; it must have either breadth or > depth, just not both.” I don’t know where you get this idea … A rheme with no > empty blanks is called by Peirce a medad rheme (CP 2.272). Also, breadth of a > term or rheme is not the filling of a blank, but the potential of a blank to > be filled; and the filled blank would represent the breadth of a proposition, > which must have both breadth and depth in order to convey information, and > therefore be relevant to logical critic.
CP 2.272 is indeed critical. >From the perspective of “meaning”, CP 2.272 represents the relationships >between the concept the structure of a sentence and the logical content of it. > Thus, CSP is maladroitly separating the words of a sentence into what he >believes are more important terms from terms of ???? (lesser important?). >The listing of the terms, medad, monad, dyad, triad, etc, lacks sentential >meaning to this reader because CSP fails to relate the medad, monad, dyad,… >to either the subject or predicate or prepositions, or adjectives, or adverbs, >etc., of the statement. In short, the fancy terms, medad, monad, dyad, triad,… simply say a sentence may contain 0,1,2,3, or more proper names. What I find interesting in CP 2.272 is that one meaningful use of this queer quasi- grammatical categorization is in the notion of parts of a whole which was later developed into an important part of mathematical logic (Lesniewski’s logic). This is consistent with 3.420-421. On the positive note, the rheme appears to extend the earlier usage of syncategorimata (sp?). Perhaps JAS would like to relate CP 2.272 AND 3.420-1 to his views of meaningful information since any proper name could mean either breadth or depth. depending on the grammar and context of the organization of the proposition. Cheers Jerry
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