[Inquiry] Re: Kaina Stoicheia

[Jon Awbrey]

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KS.  Note 13

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| What is the difference between " ___ is a man" and "man"?
| The logicians hold that the essence of the latter lies in
| a definition describing its characters;  which doctrine
| virtually makes "man" equivalent to "what is a man".
| It thus differs from " ___ is a man" by the addition*
| of the badly named "indefinite pronoun", 'what'.
| The rhema " ___ is a man" is a fragmentary sign.
| But "man" is never used alone, and would have no
| meaning by itself.  It is sometimes written upon
| an object to show the nature of that object;  but
| in such case, the appearance of the object is an
| index of that object;  and the two taken together
| form a proposition.  In respect to being fragmentary,
| therefore, the two signs are alike.  It may be said
| that "Socrates wise" does not make a sentence in the
| language at present used in logic, although in Greek
| it would.  But it is important not to forget that no
| more do "Socrates" and "is wise" make a proposition
| unless there is something to indicate that they are
| to be taken as signs of the same object.  On the
| whole, it appears to me that the only difference
| between my rhema and the "term" of other logicians
| is that the latter contains no explicit recognition
| of its own fragmentary nature.  But this is as much
| as to say that logically their meaning is the same;
| and it is for that reason that I venture to use the
| old, familiar word "term" to denote the rhema.
|
|* [Missing lines in NEM supplied from EP 2 at this point. -- JA]
|
| C.S. Peirce, ["Kaina Stoicheia"], NEM 4, 246
|
| C.S. Peirce, ["Kaina Stoicheia"], MS 517 (1904), pp. 235-263 in:
| Carolyn Eisele (ed.), 'The New Elements of Mathematics by
| Charles S. Peirce, Volume 4, Mathematical Philosophy',
| Mouton, The Hague, 1976.
|
| Cf. "New Elements", pp. 300-324 in 'The Essential Peirce, Volume 2 (1893-1913)',
| Peirce Edition Project (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1998.

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