On 10/14/2017 8:46 AM, g...@gnusystems.ca wrote:
Peirce’s study of logic seems to be a /quest for the elemental./ It grows out of his phenomenology, which aims to identify the...
It's unclear what "It" refers to. His study of logic certainly does not grow out of phenomenology. Therefore, "It" probably refers to the quest.
“indecomposable elements” of the phaneron/phenomenon, and his logical graphs aim to ‘decompose’ the thought process into the simplest possible steps, the better to understand how arguments are ‘composed,
But I would guess that his experience in math, logic, and science guided the ways he thought about everything -- including elements. He even said that his EGs expressed "the atoms and molecules of logic". Since his writings on phenomenology and/or phaneroscopy appear rather late, they would probably be effects rather than causes. John
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