Orin, list,
You wrote:
... Peirce's headword list is here:
http://www.pragmaticism.net/peirce_cendict_wordlist.pdf
Here's the Wayback Machine's image of the list of headwords for which
the database contained documents at the Peirce-Wittgenstein Research
Group at Université du Québec à Montréal with the Peirce Edition Project
(PEP-UQÀM). I guess the documents are in Indianapolis now, but I don't know.
http://web.archive.org/web/20120209081908/http://www.pep.uqam.ca/listsofwords.pep
It's more recent than the PDF and a little easier to deal with than the PDF.
Best regards,
Ben Udell
On 4/20/2020 11:07 AM, Orin Hargraves wrote:
Among the words that Peirce defined for the *Century Dictionary *are:
deism, deist, theosophy.
In each case he had the option of adopting unchanged the definition that
was in the *Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, *which served as a
template for the *Century, *and he did this often with words whose standing
definitions he found adequate. For all three words above he revamped the
entries and in all cases scaled back the theist assertions made in each.
The *Imperial *definition of *deist *has the phrase "one who professes no
form of religion, but follows the light of nature and reason as his only
guides in doctrine and practice; a freethinker."
Peirce eliminates this from his definition and defines both Deist and Deism
in relation to a belief in God, without comment on the basis for it.
The *Imperial *says *theosophy *is "a general name given to those systems
of philosophy which profess to attain to a knowledge of the Divine Being by
spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations."
Peirce's main definition is simpler than this and he adds an encyclopedic
note: "[theosophy] differs from most philosophical systems in that they
start from phenomena and deduce therefrom certain conclusions concerning
God, whereas theosophy starts with an assumed knowledge of God, directly
obtained, through spiritual intercommunion, and proceeds thereform to a
study and explanation of phenomena."
The *Imperial Dictionary *is viewable online via the Hathi Trust; the *Century
Dictionary *online is http://www.global-language.com/CENTURY/. Finally,
Peirce's headword list is here:
http://www.pragmaticism.net/peirce_cendict_wordlist.pdf
Orin Hargraves
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 7:14 AM Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote:
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