Sheet of Assertion

Keyword: Sheet of Assertion


Manuscript | Posted 18/03/2018
Peirce, Charles S. (1903-09-15). Existential Graphs. MS [R] S28
Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/08/2017
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

The matter which the Graph-instances are to determine, and which thereby becomes the Quasi-mind in which the Graphist and Interpreter are at one, being a Seme of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/01/2015
Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra"

A certain sheet, called the sheet of assertion, is appropriated to the drawing upon it of such graphs that whatever may be at any time drawn upon it, called the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/01/2015
Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 2. On Existential Graphs, Euler's Diagrams, and Logical Algebra"

What we have to do […] is to form a perfectly consistent method of expressing any assertion diagrammatically. The diagram must then evidently be something that we can see and contemplate. Now what...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/01/2015
Quote from "A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic"
  1. The System of Existential Graphs is a certain class of diagrams upon which it is permitted to operate certain transformations.

  2. There is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/01/2015
Quote from "A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic"

It is agreed that a certain sheet, or blackboard, shall, under the name of The Sheet of Assertion, be considered as representing the universe of discourse, and as...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/01/2015
Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs"

The sheet on which the graphs are written (called the sheet of assertion), as well as each portion of it, is a graph asserting that a recognized universe is...

Manuscript | Posted 24/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture II [R]. MS [R] 455

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-31.
The first and third parts of an introduction to the alpha and beta parts of the system of existential graphs; MS. 456 is...

Manuscript | Posted 22/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 450

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-26.
Improvement in reasoning requires, first of all, a study of deduction. For this, an unambiguous and simple system of...

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Foundations of Mathematics [R]. MS [R] 9

A. MS., n.p. [c.1903?], pp. 1-5, with rejected pages. Vagueness, generality, and singularity.

Manuscript | Posted 28/08/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). On Dyadics: the Simplest Possible Mathematics. MS [R] 3

A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. s-2, incomplete.
Intended as the first of a series of four memoirs, with plans for further memoirs on the application of mathematical theory to deductive logic....

Manuscript | Posted 28/08/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). On the Simplest Branch of Mathematics. MS [R] 2

A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-2; 1-5, incomplete, with an alternative p. 5.
The pure mathematics of existential graphs, alpha and beta parts, with definitions and permissions of...

Manuscript | Posted 07/04/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs. MS [R] 491

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c 1903], pp. 1-12; 1-10; 1-3; 11 pp. of variants. Logical and existential graphs (pp. 1-12). Basic definitions and principles of...

Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). CSP's Lowell Lectures of 1903. 2nd Part of 3rd Draught of Lecture III. MS [R] 465

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, G-1903-2a, October 12, 1903, pp. 68-126; A1-A8.
Published, in part, as 1.521-544 (pp. 68-126, with only the first and last paragraphs...