Joseph,
I can't recall what that message was, but the quote you are looking
might be this one, where Peirce says that his CD definitions
“were necessarily rather vaguely expressed, in order to describe the
popular usage of terms, and in some cases were modified by
proofreaders or editors; . . . they are hardly such as I should give
in a Philosophical Dictionary proper.”
It appears at the end of the "Reply to the Necessitarians" Monist
article. It could induce some rather severe pessimism about any hopes
we might have in trusting that Peirce's definitions in the Century
Dictionary can be considered to reflect his own views, but I can say
he is being overly pessimistic himself in that passage as we find
many gems in his CD work, philosophical and otherwise.
David
Gary and list:
I think it was Gary who posted a message some time back -- a couple
of weeks
ago? -- that had a quotation in it from Peirce about the
definitions in the
Century Dictionary for which he was responsible where he says
something to
the effect that he did not necessarily want to endorse of all of
those for
which he was responsible. That's not quite it, but, anyway, I
can't find
that message and need to get clear on exactly what he was saying.
Does
anybody remember what message that was?
Joe Ransdell
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