Assertion

Keyword: Assertion


Manuscript | Posted 19/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1902 [c.]). Reason's Rules. MS [R] 599

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1902], pp. 4-45, 31-42, and 8 pp. of fragments.
The nature of a sign. Propositions as the significations of signs which represent that some...

Manuscript | Posted 07/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Useful for 3rd or 4th?. MS [R] 466

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-28, unfinished, with two p. 19’s, both of which leave text intact.
Mathematics and logic; existential graphs introduced...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Reason's Rules"

Let us distinguish between the proposition and the assertion of that proposition. We will grant, if you please, that the proposition itself merely represents an image with a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic"

an act of assertion supposes that, a proposition being formulated, a person performs an act which renders him liable to the penalties of the social law (or, at any rate,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

A dicent is not an assertion, but is a sign capable of being asserted. But an assertion is a dicent. According to my present view (I may see more light in future) the act of assertion is...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Letters to William James"

…an assertion belongs to the class of phenomena like going before a notary and making an affidavit, executing a deed, signing a note, of which the essence is that one...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "That Categorical and Hypothetical Propositions are one in essence, with some connected matters"

In every assertion we may distinguish a speaker and a listener. The latter, it is true, need have only a problematical existence, as when during a shipwreck an account of the accident is sealed in...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 23/09/2014
Quote from "Lectures on Logic, to be delivered at the Lowell Institute. Winter of 1903-1904. Lecture I"

An act of assertion is a contract, the effect of which is that if what is asserted is not true, the assertor forfeits in a measure his reputation for veracity.

Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lectures on Logic, to be delivered at the Lowell Institute. Winter of 1903-1904. Lecture I. MS [R] 454

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-26.
Existential graphs as a system for expressing any assertion with precision is not intended to facilitate but to analyze...

Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 452

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-14.
The purpose of logic; the division of logic into speculative grammar, critic, and methodeutic. Why “methodeutic” as a...

Manuscript | Posted 08/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 17

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-9; 7-10 of another draft.
This manuscript should be compared with MS. 16, to which it bears a special similarity. See also MS. 250...

Manuscript | Posted 08/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1895 [c.]). On the Logic of Quantity, and especially of Infinity. MS [R] 16

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS, n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1, 5-9, 7-18, 18-20.
Several definitions of “mathematics,” including Aristotle’s and CSP’s. Mathematical proof and probable reasoning...

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1912). Notes Preparatory to a Criticism of Bertrand Russell's Principles of Mathematics. MS [R] 12

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., February 5, 1912, pp. 1-14.
The comments on Russell’s work are as follows: “… true in the main” and “throughout, however, he betrays insufficient...

News | Posted 13/05/2013
Pragmatism and Objectivity

The concept of objectivity is becoming increasingly central to discussions of philosophical and social-scientific pragmatism. This one-day workshop explores different dimensions of the concept of...

Manuscript | Posted 05/05/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1893-1895 [c.]). Division III. Substantial Study of Logic. Chapter VI. The Essence of Reasoning. MS [R] 409

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1893-5, pp. 85-141 (pp. sog, 130 missing), with 8 pp. of variants.
Published, in part, as 4.53-56 (but not all of 56) and 4.61-79 (...

Manuscript | Posted 27/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1895). Short Logic: Chapter I. Of Reasoning in General. MS [R] 595

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c.1893-3, pp. 1-32, 33-38; plus 14 pp. of variants.
Selections published as follows: 2.286-291 (pp. 6-13); 2.295-296 (pp. 14-16); 2.435-443 (pp. 23-29...

Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1908). The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism. MS [R] 300

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1905-1e, pp. 1-65; 33-40; 38-41; 37-38; 40-43.7; plus 64 pp. of fragments running brokenly from p. 1 to p. 60.
This was to have...

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