Collection

In a […] general sense, a collection is simply an individual object whose being consists in the being of whatever objects there may be of a certain general description,...

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1905-07?], pp. 1-5; 23, 24, 27, 29, 30.
The nature of definition; “collection” defined; first- and second-intentional collection.

We may say that a whole is an ens rationis whose being consists in the copulate being of certain other things, either not entia rationis or not so much so as the whole; so that a...

…while numbers may on occasion be, or represent, multitudes, they can never be collections, since collections are not grades of any kind, but are single things.

A collection is whatever stands to a general predicate of single subjects in a certain relation sui generis, such that for every such predicate there is a single collection and...

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903], pp. 1-3; 3-4 of another draft.
“Multitude” defined in terms of collection, followed by a pragmatistic definition of “collection.”

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-5; 1-4, 3-5; plus a single-page table of contents (“Contents”) and 3 rejected pages.
Definitions, corollaries, theorems, and problems...

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-12.
Several theorems demonstrated, e.g., that every relation included under a preference is itself a preference. Solution is offered...

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-...