| Grammar: General
(cf.
Grammar: Speculative,
Grammar: Universal,
Grammar: Formal,
Stecheotic,
Analytic;
see also Logic [in the narrow sense],
Rhetoric: General)
"The science of the general conditions to which every symbol is subjected in so far as it is related | a logos is General Grammar to < a language is General Rhetoric | an Object is General Logic. " ('Teleological Logic', W 1:304, 1865)
"The science of the general laws of relations
of symbols to logoi is general grammar.
The science of the general laws of their relations to
objects is logic. And the science of the general laws of their relations to
other systems of symbols is general rhetoric." (Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science, W 1:258, 1865)
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