Gary Fuhrman asks: How do we know which of the entries [in the Century Dictionary] were written by Peirce? And are those entries listed anywhere on the Net?
REPLY; As best I can make out thus far, Gary, there is no available list anywhere on the Net, and the usual practice in determining whether or not a given entry is by Peirce is to look in a certain copy of the Dictionary itself -- or a copy made from that copy -- which contains some sort of notation alongside each entry which can be attributed to Peirce. Some sort of green line or something. I don't know for sure, but my impression is that it is an icon of a mark-up by Peirce himself in his own copy of the Dictionary. Several such icons of Peirce's marked copy exist, but not many, owing to the size of the Dictionary, which will have resulted in few people getting a copy and then managing somehow to modify it into being an icon of Peirce's copy. The Institute for Studies in.Pragmaticism has one. The Peirce Edition Project at IUPUI has one. The people at the university of Quebec at Montreal who are helping to put out the new edition by putting out the Century Dictionary as Volume 7 has one. Maybe there are others. I don't know. Now, if there is any such list it is almost certainly one that was created either at the PEP or at Montreal for purposes of editing for the new edition, and there is almost certainly such a list at Montreal at this point. Whether they will be willing to make it available remains to be seen, but I will find out by cc'ing them a copy of this message in case no one there is on the list. This will also give them or any others in position to do so to correct any mis-statement I have made about the matter here. It would clearly be advantageous of them to do so, though, since (1) that would take care of the problem of being pestered by us for this information on an item by item day-to-day basis, as will certainly be happening now that we are making use of the Dictionary here, and (2) the more the Dictionary is used here the more reason people will have to buy the volume they are putting out in the new edition, which will include much material from Peirce which is not in the published version of the Dictionary. Let's see what happens. Joe Ransdell. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.22/239 - Release Date: 1/24/2006 --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
