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Quote from ‘Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise’

Quote: 

There is no fourth, as will be proved. This list of categories may be distinguished from other lists as the Ceno-Pythagorean Categories, on account of their connection with numbers. They agree substantially with Hegel’s three moments. Could they be attributed to any thinker in well-known history, that would be almost enough to refute their claims to primitivity. It has occurred to me that perhaps Pythagoras brought them from Media or Aria; but careful examination has convinced me that there was not among the Pythagoreans the smallest approach to anything resembling the categories.

Date: 
1902
References: 
CP 2.87
Citation: 
‘Categories’ (pub. 07.04.13-08:47). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-minute-logic-chapter-i-intended-characters-treatise-16.
Posted: 
Apr 07, 2013, 08:47 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:58 by Commens Admin