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C.S. Peirce • The Reality of Thirdness
Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Lowell Lectures of 1903”, CP 1.343–349 343. We may say that the bulk of what is actually done consists of Secondness — or better, Secondness is the predominant character...
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C.S. Peirce • A Guess at the Riddle
Selections from C.S. Peirce, “A Guess at the Riddle”, CP 1.354–416 359. First and Second, Agent and Patient, Yes and No, are categories which enable us roughly to describe the facts of experience,...
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C.S. Peirce • Relatives of Second Intention
Selections from C.S. Peirce, “The Logic of Relatives”, CP 3.456–552 488. The general method of graphical representation of propositions has now been given in all its essential elements, except, of...
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C.S. Peirce • On the Definition of Logic
Selections from C.S. Peirce, “Carnegie Application” (1902) No. 12. On the Definition of Logic Logic will here be defined as formal semiotic. A definition of a sign will be given which no more refers to...
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C.S. Peirce • Logic as Semiotic
Selection from C.S. Peirce, “Ground, Object, and Interpretant” (c. 1897) Logic, in its general sense, is, as I believe I have shown, only another name for semiotic (σημειωτική), the quasi-necessary, or...
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C.S. Peirce • Of Triadic Being
Selection from C.S. Peirce, “Some Amazing Mazes, Fourth Curiosity” (c. 1909) Of triadic Being the multitude of forms is so terrific that I have usually shrunk from the task of enumerating them; and for...
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Notes on the Foundations of Mathematics : 1
Peircers, I will have to be off and on the internet for the next month or so, and won’t be able to keep up with the formal activities on the list. But I have been thinking a lot about the current state...
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Notes on the Foundations of Mathematics : 2
Selections from R.L. Wilder, Introduction to the Foundations of Mathematics I. The Axiomatic Method Since the axiomatic method as it is now understood and practiced by mathematicians is the result of...
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Two Ideals
Two ideals are struggling for supremacy in American life today: one the industrial ideal, dominating thru the supremacy of commercialism, which subordinates the worker to the product and the machine;...
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The Power of Peirce’s Thought : 1
I often wonder that more people do not avail themselves of the power of Peirce’s thought. “What are they afraid of?” I ask myself. I find myself asking it that way because there really does seem to be...
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Wherefore Aught?
Re: Why Is There Something? Here is another one of those eternally recurring ideas echoed inimitably by C.S. Peirce in his sketch of a Cosmogonic Philosophy. It would suppose that in the...
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C.S. Peirce • The Proper Treatment of Hypotheses
Selection from C.S. Peirce, “Hume On Miracles” (1901), CP 6.522–547 530. Now the testing of a hypothesis is usually more or less costly. Not infrequently the whole life’s labor of a number of able...
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Definition and Determination : 10
The moment, then, that we pass from nothing and the vacuity of being to any content or sphere, we come at once to a composite content and sphere. In fact, extension and comprehension — like space and...
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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” : 4
Excerpt from Sigmund Freud, “Project for a Scientific Psychology” (1895) The Experience of Satisfaction The filling of the nuclear neurones in Ψ has as its consequence an effort to discharge, an...
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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” : 5
Excerpt from C.S. Peirce, “Minute Logic” (1902), CP 2.144–148 2.2. Why Study Logic? 2.2.5. Reasoning and Expectation 144. But since you propose to study logic, you have more or less faith in...
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“What we’ve got here is (a) failure to communicate” : 6
Excerpt from Warren S. McCulloch, “What Is a Number, that a Man May Know It, and a Man, that He May Know a Number?” (1960) Please remember that we are not now concerned with the physics and chemistry,...
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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 1
Selection from C.S. Peirce, “A Syllabus of Certain Topics of Logic” (1903) An Outline Classification of the Sciences 180. This classification, which aims to base itself on the principal affinities of...
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C.S. Peirce • Syllabus • Selection 2
But round about the castle there began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be...
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Mathematical Demonstration & the Doctrine of Individuals : 1
Selection from C.S. Peirce, “Logic Of Relatives” (1870), CP 3.45–149 92. Demonstration of the sort called mathematical is founded on suppositions of particular cases. The geometrician draws a...
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Mathematical Demonstration & the Doctrine of Individuals : 2
Selection from C.S. Peirce, “Logic Of Relatives” (1870), CP 3.45–149 93. In reference to the doctrine of individuals, two distinctions should be borne in mind. The logical atom, or term not capable...
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