Logical Depth

Keyword: Logical Depth


Dictionary Entry | Posted 28/11/2015
Quote from "Chap. XI. On Logical Breadth and Depth"

Two of the most important characters of general terms are their logical breadth and depth. [—] The depth of a term is that which can be predicated of it. [—] The...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…it was between six and seven centuries ago that John of Salisbury spoke of it as “fere in omnium ore celebre.” It is the distinction, to use that author’s phrases, between that which a term ...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/11/2015
Quote from "New Elements (Kaina stoiceia)"

The totality of the predicates of a sign, and also the totality of the characters it signifies, are indifferently each called its logical depth.

Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1908). The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism. MS [R] 300

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1905-1e, pp. 1-65; 33-40; 38-41; 37-38; 40-43.7; plus 64 pp. of fragments running brokenly from p. 1 to p. 60.
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