Vagueness

Keyword: Vagueness


Article in Journal | Posted 24/06/2019
Viola, Tullio (2019). From Vague Symbols to Contested Concepts: Peirce, W. B. Gallie, and History
This article explores Walter Bryce Gallie's notion of “essentially contested concepts” from a viewpoint that has hitherto been neglected, namely its relation to the philosophy of Charles S....
Article in Edited Collection | Posted 12/02/2018
Pape, Helmut (1999). Why We Mean (always) More and (sometimes) Less than We Say: Context-Dependence and Vagueness in Peirce's Semiotics. In: The Peirce Seminar Papers: Essays in Semiotic Analysis. Volume Four
Monograph | Posted 24/09/2017
Chauviré, Christiane (1995). Peirce et la signification: introduction à la logique du vague
Article in Journal | Posted 29/10/2014
Bergman, Mats (2007). Common Grounds and Shared Purposes: On Some Pragmatic Ingredients of Communication
This article explores a set of key conceptions involved in Charles S. Peirce’s account of communication, building on the hypothesis that his semiotic can beneficially be approached from a...
Manuscript | Posted 21/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1905-06). Analysis of some Demonstrations concerning definite Positive Integers. MS [R] 70

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1905-6, pp. 1-20, with 50 pp. of variants and notes.
See notes for an explanation of existential graphs. The versos of some pages contain notes for...

Manuscript | Posted 17/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1906 [c.]). Numeration. MS [R] 48

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-20, with 44 pp., some of which belong to different drafts but many of which are rejected pages.
Definitions of “number” and “series.”...

Manuscript | Posted 15/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Second Definition of Ordinals [R]. MS [R] 45

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [1904], pp. 4-6; 19-22; and 1 p. (the number of which is missing).
Parenthetically: “As for the whole existing race of philosophers, say John...

Manuscript | Posted 09/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1897 [c.]). On Multitude. MS [R] 26
Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Foundations of Mathematics [R]. MS [R] 11

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-2, incomplete.

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Foundations of Mathematics [R]. MS [R] 10

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-2.

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Foundations of Mathematics [R]. MS [R] 9

A. MS., n.p. [c.1903?], pp. 1-5, with rejected pages. Vagueness, generality, and singularity.

Manuscript | Posted 31/08/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Dichotomic Mathematics. MS [R] 5

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-4, 1-3, 2-9, 6-11, 6-8, 10, 16-7, 45-46, with 22 pp. belonging to other drafts.
Similar in content to MS. 4,...

Manuscript | Posted 28/08/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Sketch of Dichotomic Mathematics. MS [R] 4

A. MS., n.p., [c.1903?], pp. 1-52 (p. 25 missing), with 11 pp. of variants.
Nominal and real definitions; definition of terms, e.g., “postulate,” “axiom,” “corrollary,” “theorem,” which are...

Monograph | Posted 30/07/2014
Tiercelin, Claudine (2013). La pensée-signe: Études sur C. S. Peirce

Fondateur du pragmatisme américain, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) est considéré comme le logicien de ce mouvement. Il fut pourtant, tout autant que William James, un grand psychologue,...

News | Posted 30/07/2014
Claudine Tiercelin's 'La pensée-signe: Études sur C. S. Peirce' available online

1993 monograph made available as an open access publication by Collège de France (OpenEdition Books, 2013)

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 13/10/2013
Chiasson, Phyllis: "Peirce and Educational Philosophy"

Embedded within Peirce’s complete body of work is a “design for thinking” that provides a sturdy foundation for the development of three important learning capabilities. These capabilities are 1)...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 20/12/2012
Chiasson, Phyllis: "Peirce’s Logic of Vagueness"

Peirce’s “logic of vagueness” asserts that vagueness (which can never be completely done away with) can have the paradoxical effect of “entirely destroying doubt.” Yet the ability to engage...

Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2012
Peirce, Charles S. (1897). Multitude and Number. MS [R] 25

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-1897-1, pp. 1-82, with rejected or alternative pages running brokenly from p. 7 to p. 71.
Most of manuscript was published (4.170-...

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...