Manuscript | Posted 19/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1902 [c.]). Reason's Rules. MS [R] 599
Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902], pp. 4-45, 31-42, and 8 pp. of fragments.
The nature of a sign. Propositions as the significations of signs which represent that some...
Truth, Opinion, Falsity, Assertion, Judgment, Proposition, Sentence, Command, Meaning, Subject, Reality, Mathematics, Absurdity, Emptiness, Insolubilia, Logic, Idealism, Berkeley, Value, Sign, Object, Thomas Aquinas, Port Royal Grammar, Consciousness, Eduard von Hartmann, Unconscious, Endless Series of Signs, Achilles and the Tortoise, Understanding, Reasonableness, Interpretant, Icon, Index, Symbol, Indeterminacy, Logical Possibility, Possibility, Self-contradiction, Innocent Self-contradiction, Vicious Self-contradiction
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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...
Mathematics, Richard Dedekind, Logic, Necessary Reasoning, Assertion, Dyadic Mathematics, Existential Graph, Pure Mathematics, Multitude, Ordinal Number, Collection, Bernard Bolzano, Possibility, Quality, Relation
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Reason's Rules"
Let us distinguish between the proposition and the assertion of that proposition. We will grant, if you please, that the proposition itself merely represents an image with a...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic"
…an act of assertion supposes that, a proposition being formulated, a person performs an act which renders him liable to the penalties of the social law (or, at any rate,...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"
A dicent is not an assertion, but is a sign capable of being asserted. But an assertion is a dicent. According to my present view (I may see more light in future) the act of assertion is...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Letters to William James"
…an assertion belongs to the class of phenomena like going before a notary and making an affidavit, executing a deed, signing a note, of which the essence is that one...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "That Categorical and Hypothetical Propositions are one in essence, with some connected matters"
In every assertion we may distinguish a speaker and a listener. The latter, it is true, need have only a problematical existence, as when during a shipwreck an account of the accident is sealed in...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Lectures on Logic, to be delivered at the Lowell Institute. Winter of 1903-1904. Lecture I"
An act of assertion is a contract, the effect of which is that if what is asserted is not true, the assertor forfeits in a measure his reputation for veracity.
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Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lectures on Logic, to be delivered at the Lowell Institute. Winter of 1903-1904. Lecture I. MS [R] 454
Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-26.
Existential graphs as a system for expressing any assertion with precision is not intended to facilitate but to analyze...
Reasoning, Self-control, Mathematical Reasoning, Assertion, Existential Graph, Dot, Proposition, Pseudograph, Line of Identity, Principle of Enclosures, Rights of Transformation, Principle of Barbara
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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...
Reasoning, Deduction, Induction, Abduction, Inquiry, Logic, Logical Syntax, Speculative Grammar, Critic, Method, Methodeutic, Methodology, Additory Division, Laniation, Actual Division, Ramicrime, Assertion
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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...
Quantity, Mathematics, Hypothesis, Diagram, Scale of Quantity, Aristotle, Augustus De Morgan, William Hamilton, Euclid, Time, Space, Kant, Benjamin Peirce, George Chrystal, Perfect Knowledge, Definition, Science, Experience, Mathematical Hypothesis, Physical Hypothesis, Deductive Reasoning, Cognitive Experience, Emotional Experience, Probability, Feeling, Sensation, Precept, Observation, Relation, Intuition, Vividness, Instantaneous Photograph, Index, Assertion, Intuitional Diagram
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Manuscript | Posted 08/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On the Logic of Quantity, and especially of Infinity. MS [R] 16
Robin Catalogue:
A. MS, n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1, 5-9, 7-18, 18-20.
Several definitions of “mathematics,” including Aristotle’s and CSP’s. Mathematical proof and probable reasoning...
Mathematics, Aristotle, Mathematical Hypothesis, Diagrammatic Embodiment, Diagram, Inherential Diagram, Imputational Diagram, Probable Reasoning, Probability, Experience, Deductive Reasoning, Syllogism, Scale of Quantity, Hume, Contguity, Idea, Vividness, Dimness, Clustering of Ideas, Feeling, Consciousness of Duality, Perception, Imagination, Attention, Desire, Suggestiveness, Inner World, Outer World, Nature, Resemblance, Reason, Evolution of Forms, Metaphysics, Quality, Dual Relation, Mediation, Plural Relation, Sign, Representamen, Icon, Noumenon, Index, Symbol, Assertion, Definition, Familiarity, Clearness, Distinctness, Proper Name, Number, Will, Intuition
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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...
Bertrand Russell, Thought, Logic, Psychology, Dyadic Relation, Triadic Relation, Polyadic Relation, Plethyntic Relation, Sign, Assertion, Habit, Acquired Habit, Natural Disposition, Existence, Actuality, Word, Primary Object, Secondary Object, Object, Figment
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News | Posted 13/05/2013
Pragmatism and Objectivity
The concept of objectivity is becoming increasingly central to discussions of philosophical and social-scientific pragmatism. This one-day workshop explores different dimensions of the concept of...
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Manuscript | Posted 05/05/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1893-1895 [c.]). Division III. Substantial Study of Logic. Chapter VI. The Essence of Reasoning. MS [R] 409
From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1893-5, pp. 85-141 (pp. sog, 130 missing), with 8 pp. of variants.
Published, in part, as 4.53-56 (but not all of 56) and 4.61-79 (...
Term, Concept, Proposition, Judgment, Belief, Inference, Assertion, Symbol, Index, Subject, Predicate, Meaning, Selective, Grammar, Hieroglyphs, Monstrative Sign, Reasoning, Leading Principle, Knowledge, Perfect Knowledge, Sure Knowledge, Practically Perfect Belief, Information, Essential Possibility, Substantial Possibility, Informationally Possible, Informationally Necessary, Informationally Contingent, Nominalism, Realism, Essential Necessity, Substantial Necessity, Laboratory Philosopher, Seminary Philosopher, Descartes, Imaginative Reasoning, Experiential Reasoning, Nota Notae, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics
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Manuscript | Posted 27/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1895). Short Logic: Chapter I. Of Reasoning in General. MS [R] 595
Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c.1893-3, pp. 1-32, 33-38; plus 14 pp. of variants.
Selections published as follows: 2.286-291 (pp. 6-13); 2.295-296 (pp. 14-16); 2.435-443 (pp. 23-29...
Logic, Reasoning, Inference, Colligation, Rational Inference, Illation, Belief, Judgment, Proposition, Sign, Object, Interpretant, Icon, Index, Symbol, Speculative Grammar, Speculative Rhetoric, Composite Photograph, Assertion, Subject, Predicate, Copula, Demonstrative Reasoning, Experiential Reasoning
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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...
Pragmatism, Protagoras, Truth, F. C. S. Schiller, William James, James Mill, Indefiniteness, Protagoreanism, Plato, Vagueness, Generality in Depth, Positivism, Pragmaticism, Ethics of Terminology, Existential Graph, Chemical Graph, Chemistry, Ligature, Selective, Proper Name, Spot, Identity, Iconicity, Logical Depth, Logical Breadth, Phemic Sheet, Universe of Discourse, Nota Notae, Continuity, Line of Identity, Personal Identity, Tree of Porphyry, Concept, Teridentity, Generalized Icon, Composition, Compositionality, Icon, Sequence, Negation, Time, Reasoning, Richard Whately, Pragmaticistic Interpretation, Ground, Augustus De Morgan, Entitative Graph, Sign, Representamen, Euler's Diagrams, Friedrich Albert Lange, John Venn, Graphist, Interpreter, Universe of Real Capacities, Universe of Actual Fact, Universe of Tendencies, Modality, Information, Actual, Possible, Necessary, Tincture, Logical Universe, Oscar Howard Mitchell, Assertion, Feeling, Reason, Material Part, Essence, Alfred Bray Kempe, Connexion, Pseudo-continuity, Bernard Bolzano, Nominalism, Pseudo-continuum, Georg Cantor, Proof of Pragmatism, Proof of Pragmaticism, Limit, Quasi-continuity, Richard Dedekind, Betweenness, Relative, Existential Relation
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