[Inquiry] Re: Logic Of The Sciences

[Jon Awbrey]

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LOTS.  Note 4

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| Chapter 1.  Definition of Logic
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| It is requisite first to define logic;  and to indicate not merely
| its genus and difference, but also the genus and difference of its
| 'proximum genus' up to the 'genus summum'.
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| What is the 'genus summum'?  'Being', an ambiguous word --
| in one of its senses is the name for it.  But we wish,
| not its name, but its character.
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| We wish to find the character of the 'summum genus'.  That is, to make the widest
| possible induction.  To find the character of a class by induction we must take
| instances of that class.  Now therefore we must take instances in general.  Now,
| instances taken by us, are 1st in virtue of being taken by us feelings, and 2nd
| in virtue of being instances they are representations (that is, are considered
| as representations).  The first character belongs to them by virtue of the
| limitation of our selection.  Taking, therefore, the other character alone
| we by induction attribute this to the class of which they are instances.
| Hence we infer that 'all is representation'.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 325-326
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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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