Theorem

Keyword: Theorem


Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/11/2015
Quote from "Sketch of Dichotomic Mathematics"

Any Theorem (as I shall use this term) would be a proposition pronouncing, in effect, that were a general condition which it describes fulfilled, a certain result...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 12/11/2015
Quote from "New Elements (Kaina stoiceia)"

A theorem, as I shall use the word, is an inference obtained by constructing a diagram according to a general precept, and after modifying it as ingenuity may...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/10/2015
Quote from "Some Amazing Mazes"

I shall term the step of so introducing into a demonstration a new idea not explicitly or directly contained in the premisses of the reasoning or in the condition of the proposition which gets...

Manuscript | Posted 09/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1897 [c.]). On Multitude. MS [R] 26
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...