> (W1, 168f; 1865, Harvard Lecture on Logic I) [the slash mark enclosures are > the editor's way of showing that in the MS Peirce hesitated between two > alternative wordings.] >
I probably should have added that this was a view Peirce explicitly held in his mature era. He wrote about this to William James in 1904. At the top of p. 483 you speak of various worlds. But the number is not so great. F.E. Abbot, one of the strongest thinkers I ever encountered, first showed me that there were just three; the outer, the inner, and the logical world. The others are not distinct worlds. (CP 8.299 Letter to William James) There is some controversy over Peirce’s views of Abbot. Again Joe has written on that here on the list. In his late life Peirce is quite positive towards Abbot but this may be the rose covered classes of remember fondly what one read in college. (Heaven knows I’ve done this as well - being brought up short when actually rereading what I once loved)
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