I accidentally hit SEND on my previous reply. I won't criticize anybody's attempts to determine exactly what Peirce intended a century ago/ But a far more important issue is what his ideas mean for us today. A few years ago, I wrote a widely cited n article with the title "Peirce's contributions to the 21st century: http://jfsowa.com/pubs/csp21st. If I were writing that today, I'd add quite a bit more. On the topic of continuity and dimensionality, an enormous amount of new work has been published in the century after Peirce. For a survey, see the article on infinite dimensional category theory in the October 2021 issue of Scientific American. This is related to the work that Robert Marty and others have been discussing. Different people have different preferences. Textual criticism of what Peirce wrote (as the PEP project was doing) is important. Surveys of what Peirce wrote are also important. But at APA,conferences that kind of work is buried in sessions that are only attended by Peirce scholars. Meanwhile, lectures on other 19th century philosophers and logicians (Frege, for example) get far more attention in general sessions. I have no intention of telling anyone what they should not do. But Peirce himself wwas writing for the future, especially in the last several years of his life. I believe that Peirce's legacy depends critically on his relevance for ongoing research today. The Peirce Centennial Congress in 2014 was far more exciting. It drew international participants from a wide range of fields who showed how Peirce's ideas had influenced their research today. I have no intention of stopping anybody from talking about the past, but Peirce's emphasis was always on the future. I believe that Peirce would strongly encourage us to relate his ideas to the latest research today. John
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