[Inquiry] Re: Logic 101

[Jon Awbrey]

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LOG.  Note 4

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| Logic Chapter 1 (cont.)
|
| The final unity of consistency is given by the conception of being,
| which is the force of the copula of a proposition.  It is a conception
| without content, that is, to say that 'A' is, is to say nothing of it.
| On this account its introduction requires no justification but its own
| possibility.  Its function is to conjoin the subject presented with the
| predicate, and it is therefore possible whenever there is a predicate.
| Predication, therefore, or abstracting from reference to a mind,
| possession of character, is the first conception with content.
|
| Character is the ground of being;  whatever is, is by being 'somehow';
| at least, so we must conceive the matter.  Character is then always
| a ground, and as ground is also always a character;  the two terms
| are co-extensive.
|
| Reference to a ground i.e. possession of a character is not a conception
| given in the impressions of sense but is the result of generalization.
| Now, generalization is from related things;  so that the immediate
| function of reference to a ground is to unite relate and correlate,
| and hence its introduction is justified by the fact that without
| it reference to a correlate is unintelligible.  Accordingly,
| reference to a correlate is the second conception with
| content.
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| This conception is itself not given in sensation, but is the result of
| comparison.  Now comparison is the determination of a representation
| by the medium of that which is present, in contradistinction to its
| determination simply by that which is present.  For example, I put
| 'A' into relation to 'B', when in contemplating 'A', I as it were
| see 'B' through it.  The representation determined by the medium
| of 'A', may be called its 'correspondent'.  Then the immediate
| function of reference to a correlate is to conjoin that which
| is presented with its correspondent, and the introduction of
| the former conception is justified by the fact that only by
| it is the latter made representable.  Accordingly reference
| to a correspondent is the third conception with content.
|
| This conception is itself not in what is immediately present in its
| elements.  But it is directly applied to the immediately present in
| general;  for the bringing of the elementary sensations together
| into a notion of the immediately present, in general, requires
| the introduction of the conception that this general represents
| its particulars, and in the conception of representation that of
| an image determined as correspondent is contained.
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 352-353
|
| 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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