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<p>With me the ''Sphere'' of a term is all the things we know that it applies to, or the disjunctive sum of the subjects to which it can be predicate in an affirmative subsumptive proposition.  The ''content'' of a term is all the attributes it tells us, or the conjunctive sum of the predicates to which it can be made subject in a universal necessary proposition.</p>
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<p>With me &mdash; the ''Sphere'' of a term is all the things we know that it applies to, or the disjunctive sum of the subjects to which it can be predicate in an affirmative subsumptive proposition.  The ''content'' of a term is all the attributes it tells us, or the conjunctive sum of the predicates to which it can be made subject in a universal necessary proposition.</p>
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<p>The maxim then which rules explicatory reasoning is that any part of the content of a term can be predicated of any part of its sphere. (Peirce 1866, Lowell Lecture 7, CE 1, 462).</p>
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<p>The maxim then which rules explicatory reasoning is that any part of the content of a term can be predicated of any part of its sphere.</p>
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<p>(Peirce 1866, Lowell Lecture 7, CE 1, 462).</p>
 
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