Hi, Atila, list. The word "fact" is indeed among the words for which there are documents in the Peirce Edition Project database. If I recall correctly (I think Joe Ransdell said it many years ago), this indicates that either Peirce wrote the definition or at least he was in charge of it and maybe Dewey wrote it. See link below.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120324152505/http://www.pep.uqam.ca/listsofwords.pep?l=F - Best, Ben On 9/17/2025 5:34 PM, Atila Bayat wrote:
I think the Stoic definition of “fact” confuses the sense Peirce was driving at. Your entry seems to reflect the 1st entry in Century Dictionary which Peirce wrote, I believe. Actually the second entry is more fitting for a discussion on fact and truth. I think Peirce suggests/implies a representative characteristic to fact in his semiotics. Or I will check into that again later today. But I had the Century dictionary vols handy. Atila Cf. attachments. On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM Gary Richmond <[email protected]> wrote:
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