Universe of Discourse

Keyword: Universe of Discourse


Manuscript | Posted 18/03/2018
Peirce, Charles S. (1903-09-15). Existential Graphs. MS [R] S28
Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/03/2018
Quote from "Graphs, Little Account [R]"

…if one person is to convey any information to another, it must be upon the basis of a common experience. They must not only have this common experience, but each must know the other has it; and...

Manuscript | Posted 18/03/2018
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Graphs, Little Account [R]. MS [R] S27
Dictionary Entry | Posted 24/09/2014
Quote from "Lecture II [R]"

Logicians call […] a collection of things or subjects of force, to which the whole discussions relates, the universe of discourse. This universe consists in...

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 09/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1897 [c.]). On Multitude. MS [R] 26
Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/09/2014
Quote from "Multitude and Number"

In all discourse, or reasoning, there are virtually two parties. Either there are actually two parties, as when one speaker addresses an audience of one or more persons; or else one...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2012
Quote from "The Principles of Logical Graphics"

The universe of discourse is the aggregate of the individual objects which “exist,” that is are independently side by side in the collection of experiences to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2012
Quote from "On the Algebra of Logic"

De Morgan, in the remarkable memoir with which he opened his discussion of the syllogism (1846, p. 380) has pointed out that we often carry on reasoning under an implied restriction as to what we...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2012
Quote from "Grand Logic 1893: Chapter X. Extension of the Aristotelian Syllogistic"

De Morgan and his followers frequently speak of a “limited universe of discourse” in logic. An unlimited universe would comprise the whole realm of the logically possible. In such a universe,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2012
Quote from "Multitude and Number"

Whether the constituent individuals or units of a collection have each of them a distinct identity of its own or not, depends upon the nature of the universe of discourse. If the universe of...

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-...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2012
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter IV. Ethics (Logic IV)"

I wish my description of what is true or false, to apply to what is not only true or false generally, but also to what is true or false under conditions already assumed....

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2012
Quote from "Universe (in Logic) of Discourse"

In every proposition the circumstances of its enunciation show that it refers to some collection of individuals or of possibilities, which cannot be adequately described,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2012
Quote from "The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism"

…the Phemic Sheet iconizes the Universe of Discourse, since it more immediately represents a field of Thought, or Mental Experience, which is itself directed to the Universe of Discourse, and...

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.
This was to have...