The entry for "resultant" in the Century Dictionary is by Peirce.
Joe Ransdell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mats Bergman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peirce Discussion Forum" <peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 1:55 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: NEW ELEMENTS: entelechy (CORRECTED) Ben, Just wanted to thank you for this plausible hypothesis concerning the possible background of Peirce's "interpretant". A useful bit of terminological information for me. Just a wild guess: As a scientist, Peirce might also have wanted to create an association to "resultant" - could explain the abbreviation of "interpretament". One standard dictionary gives this for "resultant": ADJECTIVE: Issuing or following as a consequence or result. NOUN: 1. Something that results; an outcome. 2. Mathematics: A single vector that is the equivalent of a set of vectors. And in the Century Dictionary (sorry, do not have time to clean it up the moment): > resultant (r.-zul'tant), a. and n. [< F. rdsul- > taut = Sp. Pg. 'esultante = It. risultan te resul- > tante, < L. resultan(t-)s, ppr. of resultare, spring > back: see result.] I. a. Existing or follow- > ing as a result or consequence; especially, re- > suiting from the combination of two or more > agents: as, a resdtant motion produced by two > forces. See diagq'am under force1, 8. > The axis of magnetisation at each point is parallel to the > direction of the resultant force. > Atkinson, tr. of Mascart and Joubert, I. 289. > Resultant diagram. See diagram.-- Resultant rela- > tion. See relation.--Resultallt tone, in musical acous. > tics, a tone produced or generated by the simuItaneous > sounding of any two somewhat loud and sustained tones. > Two varieties are recognized, differential and sumwa- > riohal tones, the former having a vibration-number equal > to the difference between the vibration-numbers of the > generating tones, and the latter one equal to their sum. > It is disputed whether resultant tones, which are often > perceptible, have a genuine objective existence, or are > increly formed in the ear. Differential tones were first > observed by Tartini in 1714, and are often called Tartinis > tones. The entire subject has been elaborately treated > by Helmholtz and recent investigators. > II. n. That which results or follows as a con- > sequence or outcome. (a) In mech., the geometrical > sum of several vector quantities, as displacements, veloci- > ties, accelerations, or forces, which are said to be the com- > ponents, and to the aggregate of which the resultant is > equivalent. (b) Ill alg., a function of the coefficients of two > or more equations, the vanishing of which expresses that > the equations have a common root; an eliminant. To10i- > eal resultant, the resultant of a number of linear equa. > tions considered as implying the vanishing of matrices. > =Syn. Result, Resultant. A result may proceed from one > cause or from the combination of any number of causes. > There has been of late a rapid increase in the use of re. > sdtant in a sense secondary to its physical one-- namely, to > represent that which is the result of a complex of moral > forces, and would be precisely the result of no one of them > acting alone. > resultate, (re-zul'tat), n. [= D. resdtaat = G. Best, Mats Benjamin Udell wrote: > > Since then I ran into an old word "interpretament" from Medieval Latin > /interpretamentum/ which meant intepretation, apparently in the sense > only of product, and this arising from a chiefly technical use -- the > interpretament was an explanatory gloss. (At this Webpage look for > yellow-highlighted "interpretamentum" -- it's bad OCR of the > /Encyclopedia Britannica/ 11th edition, some of it is > garbled) > http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:4DjOTI7LpFMJ:encyclopedia.jrank.org/GEO_GNU/GLOSS_GLOSSARY.html+interpretamentum&hl=en > <http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:4DjOTI7LpFMJ:encyclopedia.jrank.org/GEO_GNU/GLOSS_GLOSSARY.html+interpretamentum&hl=en> > > The Century Dictionary has *interpretament* (/obs/.) (in-te^*¨* > r/*'*/pre-ta_*¨* _*¨* -ment), /n/. [< L. /interpretamentum/, > explanation, > /interpretari/, explain: see /interpret/.] > *_Interpretation_*. [Rare.] This bold /interpretament/, how commonly > soever sided with, cannot stand a minute with any competent reverence to > God or his law, or his people. /Milton/, Tetrachordon. > > My suspect that Peirce indeed knew this word but thought, why not a > briefer word, and one without an established meaning of an explanation > in a glossary. > > Best, Ben Udell > =========================== > --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.25/246 - Release Date: 1/30/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.25/246 - Release Date: 1/30/2006 --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
