A term proposed by Charles S. Peirce to denote a specific type of sign or sign function, namely, that roughly speaking, corresponding to the message.
This sign is part of the triad or trichotomy: rheme, dicent, and argument.
Peirce singles out this trichotomy in the study of the sign related to the interpretant. His classification of signs, based on this basis, tends to what in traditional logic is called a concept, message, and argument. In other words, rheme, dicent, and argument more or less correspond to a concept, message, and argument.
