The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Relatives’

Quote: 

A collection, or system, is an abstraction or abstract ens; and thus the whole doctrine of number is founded on the operation of abstraction. If we conceive an object to be a collective whole, but to be so in such a way that it has no part which is not itself a collective whole in the same way, then, if the collection is of the nature of a sorite, it is a general, whose parts are distinguished merely as having additional characters; but if the collection is a set, whose members have other relations to one another, it is a continuum.

Date: 
1902
References: 
Cp 3.642
Citation: 
‘Continuum’ (pub. 30.03.15-14:35). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-relatives-2.
Posted: 
Mar 30, 2015, 14:35 by Mats Bergman