Gary F., List:
It is interesting that you see this paragraph as anticipating what Peirce
would later call phenomenology or phaneroscopy. I believe that you are
correct, although he clearly did not yet recognize any such distinction
himself; in fact, he went on to state that "Philosophy, in the
Jon AS, list,
What caught my attention so far in your transcript of R787 was this paragraph,
which comes just before the one I’d quoted earlier from NEM 4:ix:
[[ There are, however, observations which are not only open to all men; but
which are necessarily open to all intelligences capable of
Jon Alan, List ...
As often happens, I find his first tries clearer and more to the point.
The point I found of interest here was not the interconvertibility of
term logic, propositional calculus, and monadic predicate logic — which
has been a commonplace of logic since Aristotle, if not in
Gary F., Jon A., List:
Coincidentally, Peirce wrote a somewhat similar passage thirty years later,
in the manuscript whose complete transcription I distributed over the
weekend.
CSP: [E]very general sign, even a "term," involves, at least, a
rudimentary assertion. For what is a "term," or
