Relation of Reason

Keyword: Relation of Reason


Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/03/2018
Quote from "On the Logic of Quantity"

Dual relations, – facts about pairs of subjects, – are of two types, first those which imply no more about their subjects that that they have certain qualities between which some comparison is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "That Categorical and Hypothetical Propositions are one in essence, with some connected matters"

By logical relations, I mean those in respect to which all pairs [of] objects in the universe are alike; by hemilogical relations those in respect to which there is in reference to each object in...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

…what is true by virtue of a relation of reason is representative, that is, is of the nature of a sign.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "A Guess at the Riddle"

a relation of reason subsists in virtue of two facts, one only of which would disappear on the annihilation of either of the relates. Such are all resemblances: for...

Manuscript | Posted 13/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). Degrees of Degeneracy [R]. MS [R] 911

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 1 folded sheet.
A triple character has two degrees of degeneracy. Degeneracy of a dual character. Nondegenerate dual relation is a real...

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1896). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 13

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-13; 7-12, with an alternative p. 8 of another draft.
The principal questions raised are these: Why mathematics always deals with a...