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The Commens Dictionary
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The Commens Dictionary
Peirce’s Terms in His Own Words
New Edition
Edited by Mats Bergman and Sami Paavola
Published by Commens
New edition 2014
First edition 2003
ISSN 2342-1320
Name
À Posteriori Inference (
var.
)
À Posteriori Reasoning
Abduction
Acritical Inference
Action
Activity (
var.
)
Actual (
var.
)
Actuality
Affirmation
Agapasm
Agapastic Evolution (
var.
)
Agapasticism
Agapism
Altersense
Analogy
Analytic
Anancasm
Anancastic Evolution (
var.
)
Anancasticism
Anancism
Antecept
Antecipuum
Anthropomorphism
Applied Mathematics
Area (
var.
)
Argument
Argumentation
Aristotelicity
Assent
Assertion
Association
Association by Contiguity
Association by Interest
Association by Relational Contiguity
Association by Relational Resemblance
Association by Resemblance
Association by Similarity (
var.
)
Association of Ideas
Associational Suggestion (
var.
)
Associational Suggestion of Belief
Axiom
Being: Modes of
Belief
Breadth (
var.
)
Categories
Cenopythagorean Categories (
var.
)
Cenoscopy
Chance
Class
Classificatory Science
Coenoscopic (
var.
)
Coenoscopy (
var.
)
Cognition
Collateral Observation
Collection
Cominterpretant (
var.
)
Commens
Commind (
var.
)
Common Ground
Communicational Interpretant
Community
Complete Sign
Concept
Conditional Idealism
Conduct
Consciousness
Continuity
Continuum
Convention [in Logic]
Copy [in Semeiotic]
Corollarial Consequence
Corollarial Deduction (
var.
)
Corollarial Demonstration (
var.
)
Corollarial Reasoning
Corollary
Correlate
Correspondent
Critic
Critical Common-Sensism
Critical Logic (
var.
)
Crude Induction
Deduction
Definition
Delome
Depth (
var.
)
Descriptive Science
Designation
Desire
Diagram
Dicent (
var.
)
Dicent Sign (
var.
)
Dicisign
Discrimination
Dissociation
Distinction
Doubt
Dyad
Dyadic Relation
Dyadosemeion
Dynamic Interpretant (
var.
)
Dynamical Interpretant
Dynamical Object
Dynamoid Object (
var.
)
Economy of Research
Effectual Interpretant
Efficient Causality (
var.
)
Efficient Causation
Efficient Cause
Emotional Interpretant
End (
var.
)
Energetic Interpretant
Ens Rationis
Entelechy
Entitative Graph
Essence
Essential Breadth
Essential Depth
Esthetics
Ethics
Eventual Interpretant
Existence
Existential Graph
Existential Interpretant (
var.
)
Experience
External
Externality (
var.
)
Fact
Fallibilism
Feeling
Fictile (
var.
)
Fictive (
var.
)
Figment
Final Causality (
var.
)
Final Causation
Final Cause
Final Interpretant
Final Logical Interpretant
Finiosity
First Impression of Sense
First Intention
First Rule of Reason
First [as a Category] (
var.
)
Firstness
Form
Formal Cause
Formal Grammar
Formal Logic
Formal Rhetoric
General Grammar
General Rhetoric
Generalized Icon
Generalized Percept
Grammatica Speculativa (
var.
)
Graph
Graph-replica
Ground
Guiding Principle (
var.
)
Habit
Habit-taking
Habituation
Hecceity
Heuretic Science
Hyperbolic Philosophy
Hypoicon
Hyposeme (
var.
)
Hypostatic Abstraction
Hypothesis [as a form of reasoning]
Hypothetic Inference (
var.
)
Icon
Idealism
Ideoscopy
Idioscopic (
var.
)
Idioscopy
Il Lume Naturale
Image
Immediate Interpretant
Immediate Object
Index
Individual
Individuality
Induction
Inference
Information
Informational Index
Informed Breadth
Informed Depth
Initial Interpretant
Inner World
Inquiry
Instinct
Intentional Interpretant
Interpretant
Intuition
Judgment
Kanticity
Law of Association
Law of Habit
Law of Mind
Leading Principle
Learning
Legisign
Likelihood (
var.
)
Likeness
Logic
Logic of Events
Logic of Relatives
Logic Proper (
var.
)
Logic [in the narrow sense]
Logica Docens
Logica Utens
Logical Breadth
Logical Critic (
var.
)
Logical Depth
Logical Graph
Logical Interpretant
Logical Machine
Logical Syntax
Logical Universe
Long Run
Material Cause
Mathematical Reasoning
Mathematics
Matter
Maxim of Pragmaticism (
var.
)
Maxim of Pragmatism
Medad
Medisense
Medium of Communication
Memory
Metaphor
Metaphysics
Methodeutic
Methodic (
var.
)
Middle Interpretant
Mind
Monad
Monadosemeion
Monstrative Index
Multitude
Musement
Name [in Semeiotic]
Natural Class
Natural Classification
Natural Light (
var.
)
Necessary (
var.
)
Necessitarianism
Necessitation
Necessity
Nominal Definition
Nominalism
Nomological Science (
var.
)
Nomology
Normative Science
Object
Objective Idealism
Objective Logic
Objectivity
Observation
Obsistent Logic (
var.
)
Originalian Logic (
var.
)
Outer World
Pedagogy
Percept
Perception
Perceptual Fact
Perceptual Judgment
Percipuum
Perfect Continuum
Person
Phaneron
Phaneroscopy
Pheme
Phenomenology
Phenomenon
Philosophical Criticism
Philosophy
Plausibility
Play of Musement (
var.
)
Ponecept
Ponecipuum
Possibility
Possible (
var.
)
Postulate
Potentiality
Practical Belief
Practical Retroduction
Practical Science
Practice
Pragmaticism
Pragmatism
Pragmatist
Precept
Precision (
var.
)
Precisive Abstraction (
var.
)
Precission (
var.
)
Predicate
Predication
Prescission
Presumption [as a form of reasoning]
Primisense
Probability
Problem
Proper Name
Proposition
Pseudo-continuum
Pseudograph
Psychical Law (
var.
)
Pure Grammar
Pure Icon
Pure Index
Pure Logic
Pure Mathematics
Pure Rhetoric
Purpose
Quale (
var.
)
Qualisign
Qualitative Induction
Quality
Quality of Feeling
Quantitative Induction
Quasi-interpreter
Quasi-mind
Quasi-utterer
Quota
Ratiocination
Rational
Rational Inquiry
Rationality (
var.
)
Reagent
Real
Real Definition
Real Object
Realism
Reality (
var.
)
Reason
Reasoning
Reasoning Machine
Reasoning-power (
var.
)
Relate
Relation
Relationship
Relative
Replica
Representamen
Representation
Representationism
Resemblance
Retroduction
Retrospective Science
Reviewing Science (
var.
)
Rhema
Rheme (
var.
)
Rhetorica Speculativa (
var.
)
Scholastic Realism
Science
Science of Discovery (
var.
)
Science of Review
Scientific Retroduction
Second Intention
Second Intentional Logic
Second [as a category] (
var.
)
Secondness
Selective
Selective Pronoun (
var.
)
Self
Seme
Semeiosy (
var.
)
Semeiotic
Semeiotics (
var.
)
Semeotic (
var.
)
Semiosis
Semiotic (
var.
)
Sensation
Sheet of Assertion
Sign
Sinsign
Special Science (
var.
)
Speculative Critic (
var.
)
Speculative Grammar
Speculative Rhetoric
Stecheotic
Stoicheiology (
var.
)
Suadisign
Subindex
Subject
Subject [in representation]
Substance
Substantial Breadth
Substantial Depth
Suggestion
Suggestion by Contiguity
Suggestion by Resemblance
Sumisign
Symbol
Synechism
Synthetic Philosophy
Systematic Science (
var.
)
Tactic Science (
var.
)
Tagmatic Science (
var.
)
Teleology
Tendency
Teridentity
Term
Theorem
Theorematic Consequence
Theorematic Deduction (
var.
)
Theorematic Demonstration (
var.
)
Theorematic Reasoning
Theoretical Belief
Theoretical Science
Theoric Demonstration (
var.
)
Theoric Step
Theoric Transformation
Theory
Thing
Thing-in-itself
Third [as a category] (
var.
)
Thirdness
Thisness
Thought
Time
Token
Token [as General Sign]
Tone
Transuasional Logic (
var.
)
Triad
Triadic Relation
Triadomany
Triadosemeion
Trichotomic
Truth
Tuone (
var.
)
Tychasm
Tychastic Evolution (
var.
)
Tychasticism
Tychism
Type
Uberty
Ultimate Intellectual Interpretant (
var.
)
Ultimate Logical Interpretant
Universal Grammar
Universal Rhetoric
Universe of Discourse
Verisimilitude
Virtual
Volition
Will
Would-be
