Relation

Keyword: Relation


Manuscript | Posted 06/03/2018
Peirce, Charles S. (1893 [c.]). The Art of Reasoning. Chapter I. What Is a Sign?. MS [R] 796
Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/08/2017
Quote from "Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary [R]"

Relation [L. relatio, a report. from refero, to carry back.] A fact concerning a set of objects, called the relates, or a generalization of a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 02/03/2016
Quote from "The Logic of Relations"

We might define a relation as a fact about an ordered set of things.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 22/08/2015
Quote from "Book II. Division I. Part 2. Logic of Relatives. Chapter XII. The Algebra of Relatives"

A relation is precisely defined as a fact about several subjects. A fact is an element of truth expressible as a proposition.

Manuscript | Posted 22/08/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1893). Book II. Division I. Part 2. Logic of Relatives. Chapter XII. The Algebra of Relatives. MS [R] 418

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., 1893, pp. 350-372.
“If I have made any substantial improvement in logic, it is in the discovery of this manner of dealing with the imperfections...

Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 5. Vol. 1. MS [R] 469

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 2-74.
Doctrine of multitudes. Breadth and depth. Reference to Bertrand Russell’s Principles of Mathematics in connection with...

Manuscript | Posted 07/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Useful for 3rd or 4th?. MS [R] 466

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-28, unfinished, with two p. 19’s, both of which leave text intact.
Mathematics and logic; existential graphs introduced...

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

Relations are qualities of sets of subjects. They are dyadic if the sets are pairs, triadic if the sets are triads.

Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). C.S.P.'s Lowell Lectures of 1903 2nd Draught of 3rd Lecture. MS [R] 462

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., October 5, 1903, pp. 2-88 (pagination by even numbers only), incomplete.
Alpha part of existential graphs: permissible operations. The Beta part....

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 09/09/2014
Quote from "Recreations in Reasoning"

A fact true of several subjects is called a “relation” between them.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/09/2014
Quote from "The Fourth Curiosity"

I have, since 1870, written much about the logic of relations. In those writings, I have usually restricted the terms “relations” and “relationships” to existential relations and...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/09/2014
Quote from "Relatives"

Relation is the relative character, conceived as belonging in different ways to the different relates, and (owing to the somewhat undue prominence given by...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/09/2014
Quote from "The Logic of Relatives"

A relative […] may be defined as the equivalent of a word or phrase which, either as it is (when I term it a complete relative), or else when the verb “is” is attached to it (and...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/09/2014
Quote from "The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives"

A relation is a fact about a number of things. Thus the fact that a locomotive blows off steam constitutes a relation, or more accurately a relationship (...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/09/2014
Quote from "Systems of Quantity"

A relation is a character of an object consisting in its forming with others an ordered set of objects belonging to a general class of such sets.

Manuscript | Posted 09/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1898 [c.]). Systems of Quantity. MS [R] 22

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 5 pp.
Definitions of “relation,” “relationship,” “ring-relationship,” and “quantity.” Systems of logical, collectional, and total quantity ...

Manuscript | Posted 08/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 17

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-9; 7-10 of another draft.
This manuscript should be compared with MS. 16, to which it bears a special similarity. See also MS. 250...