Joseph Ransdell wrote:
Here is a verifying passage:, from the neglected Argument paper
Peirce: CP 6.452
The word "God," so "capitalized" (as we Americans say), is the
definable proper name, signifying Ens necessarium; in my belief Really
creator of all three Universes of Experience.
Some words shall herein be capitalized when used, not as vernacular,
but as terms defined. Thus an "idea" is the substance of an actual unitary
thought or fancy; but "Idea," nearer Plato's idea of {idea}, denotes
anything whose Being consists in its mere capacity for getting fully
represented, regardless of any person's faculty or impotence to represent
it.
Joe Ransdell
Why not hit the "search" button again while you're at it?
Here are some texts where Peirce capitalizes words, to refer to ordinals:
CP 4.553
Convention the *Second;* Of the Matter of the Scripture, and the
Modality P1 of the Phemes expressed.
CP 4.567
The more scientific way would be to substitute for the *Second* and
*Third* Permissions the following Permission:
CP 6.472 The purpose of Deduction, that of collecting consequents of the
hypothesis, having been sufficiently carried out, the inquiry
enters upon its *Third* Stage
CP 2.92 A Sign is anything which is related to* a Second thing*, its
Object, in respect to a Quality, in such a way as to bring *a Third
thing*, its Interpretant, into relation to the same Object, and that in
such a way as to bring *a Fourth *into relation to that Object in the
same form, ad infinitum.
I don't see how anyone who understands English can claim that "a Second
thing", "a Third thing" or "a Fourth" do not refer to ordinals but to
categories.
/JM
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