Manuscript Material from the 1870's Toward a Book on Logic
See Joseph Ransdell's 2009-06-17 post to peirce-l
"truth and the 1870s logic" (thread with headers).
1869-71
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MS 154 (1869) Preliminary Sketch of Logic
Located here — www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms154.htm
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MS 164 (1869-70) Lessons in Practical Logic
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MS 165a (1869-70) A Practical Treatise on Logic and Methodology
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MS 165b (1869-70) Rules for Investigation
Introductory paragraphs for a logic text based on idea that the aim of reasoning is to arrive at a settled opinion.
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MS 165c (1869-70) Practical Logic
First formulation of inquiry as settlement of opinion with choice of methods, with only two methods recognized.
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MS 166 (1869-70) Chapter 2
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MS 169 (1870) A System of Logic
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MS 171 (Spring 1870) Notes for Lectures on Logic to be given 1st term 1870-71
Logic described as based on concept of a sign
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms171.htm
1872-73
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MS 179 (winter-Spring 1872) Logic, Truth, and the Settlement of Opinion
First statement of four methods model
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms179.htm
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MS 180 (Winter-Spring 1872) Investigation and the Settlement of Opinion
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms180.htm
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MS 181 (Winter-Spring 1872) Chapter 1: [Four methods of settling opinion; overview of book chapters]
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms181.htm
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MS 182 (Winter-Spring 1872) Chapter 1 (Enlarged Abstract)
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms182.htm
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MS 183 (Winter-Spring 1872) Chapter 1 (Enlarged Abstract)
A paragraph on doubt-belief relationship
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms183.htm
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MS 184 (Winter-Spring 1872) On Doubt and Belief
A very brief fragment on doubt-belief relationship
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms184.htm
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MS 187 (May 1872) Chapter 1: Of the Difference between Doubt & Belief
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms187.htm
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MS 188 (May-June 1872) Of Inquiry
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms188.htm
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MS 189 (May-June 1872) Chapter 4: Four Methods of Settling Opinion
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms189.htm
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MS 191 (summer-Fall 1872) Lecture on Practical Logic
Another brief discussion of realist vs. nominalist theory of reality, with emphasis on idealism involved in realist view
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms191.htm
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MS 192 (summer-Fall 1872) How Can Thought Think of Itself?
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms192.htm
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MS 194 (1872) On Reality
Realist vs. nominalist theory of reality discussed in context of question about untested hardness of a diamond
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/ms194/ms194.htm
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MS 195 (Fall 1872) Chapt. 4 (2nd draft)
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms195.htm
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MS 196 (Fall 1872) Chap. 4 (draft)
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms196.htm
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MS 197 (Fall 1872) On Reality
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms197.htm
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MS 198 (Fall 1872) On Reality
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms198.htm
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MS 200 (Fall 1872) Of Reality
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms200.htm
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MS 203 (Fall 1872) Of Reality
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms203.htm
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MS 204 (Fall 1872) Chapter IV. Of Reality
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms204.htm
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MS 205 (Fall 1872) Chapter IV. Of Reality
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms205.htm
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MS 207 (Winter 1872-73) Chapter --. The List of Categories
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms207.htm
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MS 212 (Winter-Spring 1873) On Representations
Three conditions of a representation; imputed qualities; ideas as representations
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms212.htm
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MS 213 (Winter-Spring 1873) On Representations
More on imputed qualities; why ideas must appeal to a mind
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms213.htm
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MS 214 (Winter-Spring 1873) On the Nature of Signs
More detail on the three conditions of representations, here called "signs" instead
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms214.htm
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MS 215 (March 1873) [On Time and Thought]
Why thought takes time (no thought in an instant)
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms215.htm
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MS 216 (8 March 1873) [On Time and Thought]
Another account of why thought takes time
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms216.htm
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MS 217 (March 10, 1873) Chap 5th
Yet another accuont of why thought takes time, but this time by introducing the idea of thought as a sign requiring interpretation
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms217.htm
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MS 218 (March 1873) Chap. 6th
Chiefly conncerned with causal connection between sign and object, thought and the thing to which it relates; the hardness of the diamond as what will happen under certan conditions
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms218.htm
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MS 220 (March 1873) Memorandum: Probable Subjects to be treated of
A partial list of the projected chapters of the logic book at this time.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms220.htm
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MS 221 (March 1873) Chap. 7 Of Logic as a Study of Signs
Chiefly conncerned with causal connection between sign and object, thought and the thing to which it relates; the hardness of the diamond as what will happen under certan conditions.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms221.htm
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MS 229 (Spring 1873) Of the Copula
The general idea of the logical copula as the fundamental principle of the logical proposition or judgment.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms229.htm
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MS 230 (Spring 1873) Of Relative Terms
Probably best read immediately following the item below, though apparently composed prior to it.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms230.htm
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MS 232 (Spring 1873) Chap. X. The Copula and Simple Syllogism
The radical reconceiving of the copula is one way of understanding what the New List of 1867 is about, and this projected chapter is especially important for understanding why Peirce never regarded the New List as flawed by its apparently untimely reliance on the conception of the classical syllogism as in some sense fundamental in logic because of what was implicit in the discovery of the logic of relatives (quantificational logic understood in terms of operations on n-adic propositional functions).
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms232.htm
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MS 233 (Spring 1873) Chap. XI. On Logical Breadth and Depth
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms233.htm
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MS 237 (July 1873) Chapter VI: The Conception of Time Essential in Logic
Logic is about an inferentially structured process, which requires time and requires that the passage in time be continuous.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms237.htm
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MS 238 (July 1873) Chapter VI: The Conception of Time Essential in Logic
A restatement of what is said in MS 237
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms238.htm
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MS 239 (Summer 1873) Chapter V: That the significance of thought lies in its reference to the future
Connection of signification and practical value (i.e. anticipation of pragmatism)
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms239.htm
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MS 240 (Summer 1873) Notes on Logic Book
The last item, very brief, in the material from the 1870's toward a book on logic.
Located here — http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms240.htm
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Manuscript fragments editorially entitled "The Logic of 1873"
Fragmentary manuscript material toward a book on logic compiled by the editor (Arthur Burks) of Volume 7 of the Collected Papers of Charles S. Peirce, appearing therein as Chapter 5, entitled "The Logic of 1873". When all of the material from the 1870's has been made available here in a perspicuous form, this collection from it will be completely redundant (Located here)