Would-be

Keyword: Would-be


Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015
Quote from "On the Meaning of "Real" [R]"

…a “would-be” refers to a whole range, or general description, of possibilities which it asserts to be alike in a certain respect; so that two directly opposite assertions of would-be’s might both...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

…no agglomeration of actual happenings can ever completely fill up the meaning of a “would-be.”

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015
Quote from "Note (Notes on Art. III) [R]"

…though I am not perfectly sure of my ground (and I am a cautious reasoner), yet I am more that what you would understand by “pretty confident,” that supposing one to be in a condition to assert...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015
Quote from "A Study of How to Reason Safely and Efficiently"

…by a Habit I shall mean a character of anything, say of B, this character consisting in the fact that under circumstances of a certain kind, say A, B would tend to be such as is...

Manuscript | Posted 21/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1912 [c.]). Secundal Computation. MS [R] 53

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1912?], pp. 1-6, with 2 other attempts to write p. 2.
The notion of “elegance” in mathematics. The secundal system. Modes of reality.