Thanks, Jon, for transcribing that part of R 284, which I didn’t have time to
search out yesterday. It’s similar to his detailed procedural and pragmatic
‘definition’ of lithium in the “Syllabus” (EP2:286):
CSP: “The peculiarity of this definition,— or rather this precept that is more
serviceab
Hi, Jon Alan Schmidt, list,
I guess that Pietarinen, when he says of the MS 490 existential graphs
in the _/Collected Peirce/_: "*the five that it reproduced are all
erroneous*", he means the Peirce erred, not that CP got them wrong,
since Pietarinen's own renderings at your link are nearly en
Ben, List:
Maybe he is just referring to the use of closely spaced lines in CP for the
oddly enclosed areas, rather than the "blue tint" that Peirce explicitly
mentions in an omitted portion of the accompanying text as being "a great
aid to the understanding." Figures 222 and 223 are also incorrec
Hi Jon Alan Schmidt, list. I noticed the line ending at the cut rather
than passing through it, and thought of it as a little mistake, but it's
in the original, so maybe Pietarinen thought it called for silent
correction in reproduction. And those closely spaced lines in all 5,
Pietarinen's
Gary F, Jon S, List,
[Note: I had nearly completed this message when I read JAS's post which
included his correction of the "procedural order" reversing numbers 1 and 2
just below.]
GF: The procedural order here is:
1. settling “what the phaneron is”
2. “considering what is possible” [
Gary R., List:
GR: Kenneth Ketner in two of the appendices of 'A Thief of Peirce' suggests
that the reduction thesis has its valental roots in mathematics and its
further development in logic as semeiotic, notably in existential graphs.
So I would agree that, as you wrote, "It is at the heart of h
Gary R., List:
GR: Is it in that "next chapter" that Peirce takes up the logic of
relations?
This seems to have been the plan that he had in mind when he was writing
"The Simplest Mathematics" as chapter 3 of *Minute Logic* (R 429, CP
4.227-323, 1902).
CSP: In this chapter, I propose to conside
