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Type: 
Manuscript
Author: 
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Title: 
C.S.P.'s Lowell Lectures of 1903 2nd Draught of 3rd Lecture
Manuscript Id: 
MS [R] 462
Year: 
1903
Abstract / Description: 

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., October 5, 1903, pp. 2-88 (pagination by even numbers only), incomplete.
Alpha part of existential graphs: permissible operations. The Beta part. Difference between alpha-impossibility and beta-impossibility summarized [cf. MS. 457]. The Gamma part concerns what can logically be asserted of meanings. The distinction between regulative and constitutive (in Kant). The logical doctrine called “Pragmatism.” CSP claims that he has been unjustly called a sceptic, a second Hume. The “joke” about opium’s dormitive virtue. Possibility and necessity (Locke’s confusion). Qualities as mere possibilities. Relations are qualities of sets of subjects. Dyadic and triadic relations. All triadic relations are, more or less, thoughts. Doctrine of signs; icons, indices, and symbols.

Keywords: 
Beta Graph, Alpha-impossibility, Beta-impossibility, Principle of Contradiction, Principle of Excluded Middle, Relation, Reference, Gamma Graph, Ens Rationis, Softness, Hardness, Adjectival Meaning, Constitutive Principle, Regulative Principle, Pragmatism, Dormitive Virtue, Quality, Possibility, Law of Nature, Existence, Dyadic Relation, Triadic Relation, Brute Relation, Rerelation, Conception, Giving, Law, Sign, Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, Icon, Index, Symbol
Language: 
English