Re: [PEIRCE-L] Empirical or inductive logic Open-ended logics?

2018-05-22 Thread John F Sowa
On 5/22/2018 1:22 PM, Jerry LR Chandler wrote: Of particular interest is Venn’s views on the role of “=“ sign. Copula? Or predicate? Or, in view of symbolization of the modern logic of set theory, should the “=“ sign be banned altogether? Wittgenstein's answer in the Tractatus is simple: T

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Empirical or inductive logic Open-ended logics?

2018-05-22 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
List, John Thanks for these IMPORTANT historical references! > On May 19, 2018, at 10:44 AM, John F Sowa wrote: > > That led me to Venn's articles from 1880, which may have had a > significant influence on Peirce's thinking about graph logics. > They're in the 1880 proceedings of the Cambridge