[Inquiry] Ground, Idea, Prescindible

[Jon Awbrey]

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GIP.  Note 1

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| So the species of representation are three;  to wit, ...
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| Now it is to be observed that the Ground of either kind of representation is a
| common character and therefore may be prescinded.  And any common character not
| only may but does serve as the Ground of some representation.  Hence, Ground and
| Prescindible are co-extensive terms, and we may more concisely define as follows: --
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|    Representations are either
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|       1.  Signs;  whose prescindible is from the subject
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|       2.  Copies;  whose prescindible is from Subject and Object
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|       3.  Symbols;  whose prescindible is from the object.
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| We are now ready to assign logic its definition.
| For this purpose, it must be granted that logic is
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|    a symbol
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|       whose essential end is
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|          to test
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|             ( truth,
|             <
|             ( by reasons.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 328-329
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| C.S. Peirce, "Logic of the Sciences", MS 113 (1865), pp. 322-336 in:
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce:  A Chronological Edition, Vol. 1, 1857-1866',
| Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

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