Speculative Grammar

Keyword: Speculative Grammar


Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/04/2018
Quote from "On Signs [R]"

The whole discussion of the logical nature of the different kinds of possible signs makes up the first division of logic, or Speculative Grammar. The second...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/03/2018
Quote from "A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce"

speculative grammar, corresponding to stecheology (Elementarlehre), classifies and describes signs.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2018
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise"

That our thoughts are signs is an old and familiar doctrine. I show that it is only in so far as thoughts are signs, and particularly […] symbols, that they become subjects of logic; and further...

Monograph | Posted 31/01/2018
Bellucci, Francesco (2018). Peirce’s Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics

Peirce’s Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce’s theory of speculative...

Article in Journal | Posted 27/06/2017
Serson, Breno (1997). On Peirce's Pure Grammar as a General Theory of Cognition: From the Thought-sign of 1868 to the Semeiotic Theory of Assertion
Article in Journal | Posted 13/03/2017
Midtgarden, Torjus (2001). Peirce's Speculative Grammar from 1895-1896: Its Exegetical Background and Significance
Discusses the exegetical background and significance of Charles Sanders Peirce's speculative grammar from 1895-1896. Conceptual elements contained in the reformulated theory of truth; Role of...
Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/08/2015
Quote from "On the Classification of the Sciences"

Of Representation, in general, there are three Theories, namely, First, the Theory of the general conditions under which a representamen may embody a Meaning...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/08/2015
Quote from "Miscellaneous Fragments [R]"

Logic is […] synonymous with semeiotic, the pure theory of signs in general. Its first part, speculative grammar, corresponding to stecheology (Elementarlehre), classifies...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/08/2015
Quote from "Miscellaneous Fragments [R]"

Semeiotics has three parts: Speculative Grammar, which studies the essential nature of the different kinds of signs; Critic, which studies the general conditions of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/04/2015
Quote from "Lecture I [R]"

I [….] take a position quite to that of the English logicians, beginning with Scotus himself, in regarding this introductory part of logic as nothing but an analysis of...

Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 452

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-14.
The purpose of logic; the division of logic into speculative grammar, critic, and methodeutic. Why “methodeutic” as a...

Manuscript | Posted 22/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 449

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, G-1903-2a, pp. 37-61.
Published, in part, as 1.611-615 and 8.176 (except 176n3) (pp. 37-49 and 51-53). Unpublished: criticism of Sigwart and...

Manuscript | Posted 18/08/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1906 [c.]). On Signs [R]. MS [R] 793

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-4, 10-14; plus 9 pp. of variants and 1 p. (fragment).
An attempt to define “sign” as a medium for the communication of form....

Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/01/2013
Quote from "Logic"

It is generally admitted that there is a doctrine which properly antecedes what we have called critic. It considers, for example, in what sense and how there can be any true proposition and false...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/01/2013
Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Detached Ideas continued and the Dispute between Nominalists and Realists"

There are three ways in which signs can be studied, first as to the general conditions of their having any meaning, which is the Grammatica Speculativa of Duns...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/01/2013
Quote from "On Signs [R]"

In consequence of every representamen being thus connected with three things, the ground, the object, and the interpretant, the science of semiotic has three branches. The...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/01/2013
Quote from "Logic of Mathematics: An attempt to develop my categories from within"

But besides being logical in the sense of demanding a logical analysis, our inquiry also relates to two as a conception of logic. The term “logic” is unscientifically by me...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/01/2013
Quote from "The Regenerated Logic"

“Exact” logic, in its widest sense, will (as I apprehend) consist of three parts. For it will be necessary, first of all, to study those properties of beliefs which belong...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 27/01/2013
Quote from "Short Logic"

So, cultivators of the art of reasoning found themselves long ago obliged to institute a speculative grammar which should study modes of signifying, in...

Manuscript | Posted 27/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1895). Short Logic: Chapter I. Of Reasoning in General. MS [R] 595

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., G-c.1893-3, pp. 1-32, 33-38; plus 14 pp. of variants.
Selections published as follows: 2.286-291 (pp. 6-13); 2.295-296 (pp. 14-16); 2.435-443 (pp. 23-29...

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