| Rhetoric: Universal
(cf.
Rhetoric: Speculative,
Rhetoric: General,
Rhetoric: Formal,
Methodeutic;
see also Grammar: Universal,
Logic [in the narrow sense])
"Symbols, as such, are subject to three
laws one of which is
the conditio sine qua non of its standing for anything, the second of its
translating anything, and the third of its realizing anything. The first law is
Logic, the second Universal Rhetoric, the third Universal Grammar."
(Harvard Lectures on the Logic of Science, W 1:274, 1865)
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