Logic

Keyword: Logic


Manuscript | Posted 26/11/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1909). Meaning Preface. MS [R] 637

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., October 3-13, 1909, pp. 9-36, 27-30, 28-29, 31-36.
Tendency to guess right (but not necessarily on the first guess). Pure logic supports the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2014
Quote from "C.S.P.'s Lowell Lectures of 1903 2nd Draught of 3rd Lecture"

logic is the science of regulating your thoughts so as not to be surprised when it can be avoided; and therefore whatever is said in logic about the modes of being...

Article in Journal | Posted 17/11/2014
Jacquette, Dale (2009). Revisionary Early-Peircean Predicate Logic without Proper Names
The article focuses on the nineteenth-century philosophical theories regarding universal concepts held by American philosopher and mathematician Charles S. Peirce. The author focuses on Peirce's...
Article in Journal | Posted 30/10/2014
Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko (2013). Christine Ladd-Franklin's and Victoria Welby's correspondence with Charles Peirce
The Peirce-Welby correspondence has been an invaluable source for the historians of logic and semiotics mapping the development of Peirce's thought and of the significs movement. The unpublished...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/10/2014
Quote from "On Classification of the Sciences"

The purpose and utility of logic […] lies in its final achievement of a methodeutic for the guidance of thought; and from this point of view logic is the theory of the self...

Manuscript | Posted 28/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 3. MS [R] 459

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-41.
The words “Won’t do” (by CSP) appear on the cover of the notebook. Definition of “mathematics.” Denial that mathematics...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Lecture I [R]"

At the outset, we define the principal purpose of logic to be to learn how to conduct any inquiry. [—]

In my opinion, the purpose of logic must ultimately come to be recognized as that of...

Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 453

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-37.
Science hampered by the false notion that there is no distinction between good and bad reasoning. This notion related to...

Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 452

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-14.
The purpose of logic; the division of logic into speculative grammar, critic, and methodeutic. Why “methodeutic” as a...

Manuscript | Posted 22/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 451

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-21.
Refutation of the view that there is no distinction between good and bad reasoning or, for that matter, good and bad...

Manuscript | Posted 22/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 449

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, G-1903-2a, pp. 37-61.
Published, in part, as 1.611-615 and 8.176 (except 176n3) (pp. 37-49 and 51-53). Unpublished: criticism of Sigwart and...

Manuscript | Posted 22/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 448

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS,. notebook, G-1903-2a, pp. 1-48.
Published as 1.591-610, with omissions. Unpublished: Present day science suffers from a malady whose source is an...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/09/2014
Quote from "On a New List of Categories"

logic treats of the reference of symbols in general to their objects.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 21/09/2014
Quote from "Notes on B. Peirce's Linear Associative Algebra"

In short, logic is the theory of all reasoning, while mathematics is the practice of a particular kind of reasoning.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/09/2014
Quote from "On Topical Geometry, in General (T)"

Logic is a branch of philosophy. That is to say it is an experiential, or positive science, but a science which rests on no special observations, made by special observational means, but on...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 04/09/2014
Quote from "On Quantity, with special reference to Collectional and Mathematical Infinity"

Logic and metaphysics make no special observations; but they rest upon observations which have been made by common men. Metaphysics rests upon observations of real objects, while...

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...

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1912). Notes Preparatory to a Criticism of Bertrand Russell's Principles of Mathematics. MS [R] 12

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., February 5, 1912, pp. 1-14.
The comments on Russell’s work are as follows: “… true in the main” and “throughout, however, he betrays insufficient...

Monograph | Posted 01/08/2014
Pietarinen, Ahti-Veikko (2006). Signs of Logic: Peircean Themes on the Philosophy of Language, Games, and Communication
Monograph | Posted 01/08/2014
Burch, Robert W. (1991). A Peircean Reduction Thesis

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