[Inquiry] Re: Logic 101

[Jon Awbrey]

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LOG.  Note 3

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| Logic Chapter 1 (cont.)
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| The method which ought to be adopted is one which derives the categories
| from the functions of judgment but which has its starting-point in pure
| being.  The first step of such a process may be described beforehand.
| Sensation presents a manifold and this manifold must be conjoined
| under the unity of consistency.
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| Now to combine the manifold of the immediately present, in general,
| requires the introduction of a conception not given, precisely as
| the manifold of optical phenomena can only be reduced to harmony
| by the foreign conception of a luminiferous ether.  But perhaps
| this introduced conception in order to be combined with the
| immediately present requires the introduction of another
| conception.  And so on, until the conception of being,
| which 'is' the unity of consistency, can be directly
| applied.
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| If, therefore, we begin with the conception of being
| and ask what it is that it conjoins to that which is
| present, we shall have the first conception under it.
| Then if we ask what 'this' conception conjoins to that
| which is present we shall have the second conception.
| And we can proceed in this way until we finally arrive
| at the conception which directly combines together the
| immediately present, in general.  This proceedure seems
| to be absolutely determinative and to give no room for
| anything arbitrary.  Now let us put it in practice.
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 352
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| C.S. Peirce, "Logic Chapter 1", MS 115 (1866), pp. 351-356 in:
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce:  A Chronological Edition',
|'Volume 1, 1857-1866', Peirce Edition Project,
| Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

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