John, List:
JFS: It's not clear which "55 pages" Peirce was counting.
On the contrary, here is the relevant text in R L376.
CSP: An account of slightly further development of it was given in the
*Monist *of Oct. 1906. In this I made an attempt to make the syntax cover
Modals; but it has not
Jon, List,
It's not clear which "55 pages" Peirce was counting. It may have been his own
MS. As for L477, he was probably recalling words that he remembered from the
letter to Risteen. In L477, he only mentioned one sentence on that topic:
"It cost me the trouble of my nonsensical
John, List:
In the first passage that you quoted from R L376, I agree that Peirce is
primarily condemning cuts, not tinctures. However, he is also condemning
his *entire *55-page description of EGs in "Prolegomena to an Apology for
Pragmaticism"--that is the total length of the article as
I just wanted to clarify some issues that may be unclear in what Peirce wrote
in L376: "in the Monist of Oct. 1906... I made an attempt to make the syntax
cover Modals; but it has not satisfied me. The description was, on the whole,
as bad as it well could be, in great contrast to the one Dr.
