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Manuscript | Posted 06/03/2018
Peirce, Charles S. (1893 [c.]). The Art of Reasoning. Chapter I. What Is a Sign?. MS [R] 796
Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/03/2018
Quote from "On Existential Graphs"

A term is a symbol in which the representative and reactive aspects of the object are left entirely vague except so far as they may be determined by the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 10/08/2017
Quote from "Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary [R]"

a term is a symbol with both interpretant and object left blank.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 10/08/2017
Quote from "Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary [R]"

A term appears, in the general algebra of logic of Peirce, as well as in the logical graphs of the same logician, as a symbol which does not definitely and separately show...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/01/2015
Quote from "Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs"

A term […] is any representamen which does not separately indicate its object; as ‘kills’, ‘digs’, ‘endowed by nature with rich gifts...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/01/2015
Quote from "Notes on Topical Geometry"

Symbols are of three classes: terms, which call attention to things or quasi-things; propositions, which declare facts; and arguments,...

Manuscript | Posted 12/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1899-1900 [c.]). Notes on Topical Geometry. MS [R] 142

A. MS., G-undated-16 [c.1899-1900?], 6 pp., plus 2 pp. each of two other drafts having the same title as above.
Published, in part, as 8.368n23. Omitted from publication are definitions of “...

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1896). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 13

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-13; 7-12, with an alternative p. 8 of another draft.
The principal questions raised are these: Why mathematics always deals with a...

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). On the Foundations of Mathematics. MS [R] 8

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-4, 3-4; 4-8 of another draft.

Manuscript | Posted 31/08/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). On the Foundations of Mathematics. MS [R] 7

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-16, with 3 rejected pages; 17-19 of another draft.
Mathematics as dealing essentially with signs. The MSS. below (Nos. 8-11) are...

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 07/04/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs. MS [R] 491

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c 1903], pp. 1-12; 1-10; 1-3; 11 pp. of variants. Logical and existential graphs (pp. 1-12). Basic definitions and principles of...