[Inquiry] Re: Logic 101

[Jon Awbrey]

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LOG.  Note 15

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| Lowell Lecture 9 (cont.)
|
| Having thus made a complete catalogue
| of the objects of formal thought, we
| come down to consider symbols, with
| which alone Logic is concerned --
| and symbols in a special aspect;
| namely, as determined by their
| reference to their objects or
| correlates.
|
| The first division which we are to attempt to make between different
| kinds of symbols ought to depend upon their intention, what they are
| specially meant to express -- whether their peculiar function is to
| lie in their reference to their ground, in their reference to their
| object, or their reference to their interpretant.
|
| A symbol whose intended function is its reference to its ground, -- although as
| a symbol it must refer also to an object and an interpretant, and although the
| nature of its reference to its object is alone the study of the logician --
| is nevertheless 'intended' to be nothing more than something which has
| 'meaning' and to which a certain character has been imputed;  in other
| words it is a symbol only because the imputation of a certain character
| has made it one -- the imputation of the character is the same as putting
| it for a thing or things -- so that it is merely considered as expressing
| a thing or things in their internal characters -- as standing in place of
| a thing and as being, like that thing, an incarnation of a certain ground,
| though only by imputation and not internally.
|
| If we write "White" -- this word standing by itself, means nothing;
| it stands there merely in place of a white thing so that we have by
| imputation put a white thing on the board.
|
| So if we write "Aristotle" this meaning nothing, except so far as it
| embodies certain characters of mind, of nationality, and of position
| in space and time, which belonged internally and not by Imputation to
| the real Aristotle.
|
| Thus a 'term' is a symbol which is intended only to refer to a Ground
| or what is the same thing, to stand instead of a Quale or what is again
| the same, to have 'meaning' without 'truth'.
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 476-477
|
|"The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis",
| Lowell Institute Lectures (1866), pp. 357-504 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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