JAS, List > On Jul 5, 2018, at 4:06 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > According as the number of blanks in a rheme is 0, 1, 2, 3, etc., it may be > termed a medad (from {méden}, nothing), monad, dyad, triad, etc., rheme. (CP > 2.272, EP 2:299; 1903) > > The first sentence requires at least one part of a Proposition to be erased > in order to produce a Rheme; so a "medad Rheme" with zero blanks is really > still a Proposition, since nothing has been erased from it.
“0” is “0”, not one. In normal usage of language, the interpretation that an erasure is necessary to generate a rhema (rheme ) is every rare. This usage create a direct contradiction which appears unlikely for CSP. Cheers Jerry
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