[Inquiry] Re: Logic Of Relatives -- Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

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LOR.  Discussion Note 31

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Many illusions of selective reading -- like the myth that Peirce did not
discover quantification over indices until 1885 -- can be dispelled by
looking into his 1870 "Logic of Relatives".  I started a web study of
this in 2002, reworked again in 2003 and 2004, the current version
of which can be found here:

LOR.      http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2004-November/thread.html#1750
LOR-COM.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2004-November/thread.html#1755
LOR-DIS.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2004-November/thread.html#1768

I've only gotten as far as the bare infrastructure of Peirce's 1870 LOR,
but an interesting feature of the study is that, if one draws the pictures
that seem almost demanded by his way of linking up indices over expressions,
then one can see a prototype of his much later logical graphs developing in
the text.

Jon Awbrey

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