Achilles and the Tortoise

Keyword: Achilles and the Tortoise


Manuscript | Posted 19/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1902 [c.]). Reason's Rules. MS [R] 599

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902], pp. 4-45, 31-42, and 8 pp. of fragments.
The nature of a sign. Propositions as the significations of signs which represent that some...

Truth, Opinion, Falsity, Assertion, Judgment, Proposition, Sentence, Command, Meaning, Subject, Reality, Mathematics, Absurdity, Emptiness, Insolubilia, Logic, Idealism, Berkeley, Value, Sign, Object, Thomas Aquinas, Port Royal Grammar, Consciousness, Eduard von Hartmann, Unconscious, Endless Series of Signs, Achilles and the Tortoise, Understanding, Reasonableness, Interpretant, Icon, Index, Symbol, Indeterminacy, Logical Possibility, Possibility, Self-contradiction, Innocent Self-contradiction, Vicious Self-contradiction
Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 5. Vol. 1. MS [R] 469

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 2-74.
Doctrine of multitudes. Breadth and depth. Reference to Bertrand Russell’s Principles of Mathematics in connection with...

Cardinal Number, Ordinal Number, Doctrine of Multitude, Collection, Multitude, Ens Rationis, Existence, Proper Name, Sam, Gath, Being, Essence, Breadth, Imputed Firstness, Pure Secondness, Regulative Principle, Quality, Bertrand Russell, Scientific Vocabulary, Relation, Georg Cantor, Achilles and the Tortoise, Cantorian Succession, Bernard Bolzano, Definition, Enumerable Collection, Denumeral Collection, Syllogism of Transposed Quantity, Depth
Manuscript | Posted 25/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 3. 1st draught. MS [R] 458

Robin Catalogue:
Science, mathematics, and quantity. Pure mathematics (the science of hypotheses) is divided in accordance with the complexity of its hypotheses. Simplest mathematics...

Mathematics, Science, Philosophy, Benjamin Peirce, Richard Dedekind, Simplest Mathematics, Mathematics of Existential Graphs, False Graph, True Graph, Mathematics of Logic, Three-valued Mathematics, Theory of Numbers, Higher Arithmetic, Multitude, Maniness, Georg Cantor, Bernard Bolzano, Euclid, Infinity, Whole, Collection, Definition, Dyad, Duette, Ordered Pair, Ens Rationis, Nothing, Possible, Identity, Augustus De Morgan, Syllogism of Transposed Quantity, Existence, Experience, Knowledge, Possibility, Idea, Achilles and the Tortoise, Convenient Fiction
Manuscript | Posted 17/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1906 [c.]). Numeration. MS [R] 48

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-20, with 44 pp., some of which belong to different drafts but many of which are rejected pages.
Definitions of “number” and “series.”...

Numeration, Arithmetical Notation, Number, Series, Collection, Multitude, Vagueness, Indefiniteness, Precision, Certainty, Ens Rationis, Real, Information, Experience, Enumerable Series, Simple Denumeral Series, Achilles and the Tortoise, Zeno, Cardinal Numerals, Indeterminacy, Whole, Partian Being, Totan Being, Abstraction
Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1897). Multitude and Number. MS [R] 25

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1897-1, pp. 1-82, with rejected or alternative pages running brokenly from p. 7 to p. 71.
Most of manuscript was published (4.170-...

Collection, Universe of Discourse, Experience, Time, Space, Multitude, Discrete Collection, Multiplicity, Mathematics, Philosophy, Enumerable Collection, Finite Collection, Augustus De Morgan, Syllogism of Transposed Quantity, Inenumerable Collection, Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, Denumerable Collection, Multiplication, Free Multiplication, Dominated Multiplication, Georg Cantor, Number, Generating Relation, First Abnumeral Multitude, Primipostnumeral Multitude, Achilles and the Tortoise, Fermatian Syllogism, Primipostnumeral Syllogism, Secundopostnumeral Collection, Arithm, Metrics, Graphics, Topics, Geometry, Absolute, Plane, Singularity, Continuity, Chorisis, Cyclosis, Euler's Theorem, Product of a Collection, Vagueness, Generality, Euclid, Non-Euclidean Geometry