Cf: Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 10.1
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Re: Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Selection 10 (CP 3.75)
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Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 10.1
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All,
What Peirce is attempting to do at CP 3.75 is absolutely amazing.
I did not run across anything on a par with it again until the
mid 1980s when I began studying the application of mathematical
category theory to computation and logic. Gauging the success
of Peirce’s attempt would take a return to his earlier paper
“Upon the Logic of Mathematics” (1867) to pick up the ideas
about arithmetic he sets out there.
Another branch of the investigation would require us to examine the
syntactic mechanics of “subjacent signs” Peirce uses to establish
linkages among relational domains. The indices employed for this
purpose amount to a category of diacritical and interpretive signs
which includes, among other things, the comma functor we have just
been discussing.
Combining the two branches of this investigation opens a wider
context for the study of relational compositions, distilling the
essence of what it takes to relate relations, possibly complex,
to other relations, possibly simple.
Regards,
Jon