Collection

Keyword: Collection


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

A collection is not a thing, but an ens rationis, since its distinctive identity is constituted not only by an arbitrary act, but by the distinctive...

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 11/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture V [R]. MS [R] 471

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, 10 pp.
On multitude and collection.

Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture 5,. Vol. 2. MS [R] 470

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 76-158.
At the beginning CSP offers the following plan for his lecture series: “1. What makes a reasoning sound, 2....

Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 5. Vol. 1. MS [R] 469

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 2-74.
Doctrine of multitudes. Breadth and depth. Reference to Bertrand Russell’s Principles of Mathematics in connection with...

Manuscript | Posted 07/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Useful for 3rd or 4th?. MS [R] 466

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A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-28, unfinished, with two p. 19’s, both of which leave text intact.
Mathematics and logic; existential graphs introduced...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/01/2015
Quote from "Lowell Lectures of 1903. Lecture III. 2nd Draught"

A collection is a single object whose being consists in the existence of whatever independent individuals may exist of which a given rhema is true, these independent...

Manuscript | Posted 07/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures of 1903. Lecture III. 2nd Draught. MS [R] 463

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 11-17 (pp. 1-9 are mathematical notes and have nothing to do with the lecture).
On multitude and collection.

Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures of 1903 by C. S. Peirce. Second draught of Lecture 3. MS [R] 461

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., September 30, 1903, pp. 1-9; plus 2 cards which were found inserted among the unnumbered pages of the notebook.
Multitude; serial order...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 29/09/2014
Quote from "Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 3"

A Collection is anything whose being consists in the existence of whatever there may exist that has any one quality; and if such thing or things exist, the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/09/2014
Quote from "Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 3. 1st draught"

The definition […] of a collection is that it is a real individual object whose being consists in the being of whatever may actually exist that possesses a certain...

Manuscript | Posted 25/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 3. 1st draught. MS [R] 458

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Science, mathematics, and quantity. Pure mathematics (the science of hypotheses) is divided in accordance with the complexity of its hypotheses. Simplest mathematics...

Manuscript | Posted 19/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1901-02 [c.]). An Illustration of Dynamics. MS [R] 49

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1901-02?], pp. 1-20, with 3 pp. of variants.
Setting out from two problems of dynamics both of which require for their solution the method of...

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 14/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). Fragments on Collections [R]. MS [R] 36

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 14 pp.

Manuscript | Posted 14/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). Collections and the Fermatian Inference [R]. MS [R] 34

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., 26 pp. of discontinuous fragments (nn. except for 67).

Manuscript | Posted 14/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). On Collections and Multitudes [R]. MS [R] 33

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 4-8.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/09/2014
Quote from "On Collections [R]"

A collection is a thing to which everything of a certain description peculiar to the individual collection stands in an existential relation essential to the...

Manuscript | Posted 14/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (nd). On Collections [R]. MS [R] 32

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-2, incomplete.
“Collection” defined; collection and quota distinguished.

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