[Inquiry] Re: Logic Of Relatives -- Commentary

[Jon Awbrey]

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LOR.  Commentary Note 7

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NB.  On account of the invideous circumstance that various
listservers balk at Peirce's "marks of reference" -- or is
it only the Microsoft Cryptkeeper's kryptonizing of them? --
I will make the following substitutions in Peirce's text:

@  =  dagger symbol
#  =  double dagger
|| =  parallel sign
$  =  section symbol
%  =  paragraph mark

It is clear from our last excerpt that Peirce is already on the verge
of a graphical syntax for the logic of relatives.  Indeed, it seems
likely that he had already reached this point in his own thinking.

For instance, it seems quite impossible to read his last variation on the
theme of a "giver of a horse to a lover of a woman" without drawing lines
of identity to connect up the corresponding marks of reference, like this:

o---------------------------------------o
|                                       |
|            @        ||                |
|           / \      /  \               |
|          o   o    o    o              |
|      `g`_@#  @'l'_||  ||w  #h         |
|           o                o          |
|            \______________/           |
|                   #                   |
|                                       |
o---------------------------------------o
Giver of a Horse to a Lover of a Woman

Jon Awbrey

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