List,
i tried once again to get my head around the bibliography of the
Collected Papers. Is this bibliography useful for anything else than
ordering the paragraphs of the CP in a chronological order? The
Introduction says:
"Using the invaluable tool of the Burks bibliography from the last of
the eight CP volumes, which gave scholars the necessary key to
reconstruct the order of the Peirce manuscripts before the CP editors
dissected them and shuffled the pieces[...]"
But where is the key to back to Burks and the CP? Is there any way to
relate the CP to the Robin Catalog or Ketners Complete Published Works?
Best,
Stefan
P.S.:
It is just a bad joke that the work of the man who laid the foundations
of SQL was shreddered in a way that all relations were lost.
"This bibliography has three main sections: (I) General, (II) Items from
The Nation, and (III) Miscellaneous. The first section includes all
Peirce’s works which have been published from manuscripts in the eight
volumes of Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce and all his known
works which were presented as addresses or were printed in publications
other thanThe Nation during his lifetime. The second section consists of
all the works published in The Nation that have been identified as
Peirce‘s contributions. The third section consists of correspondence by
Peirce, and also works by other authors which quote or describe
manuscripts by Peirce that are not published in Collected Papers,
volumes I-VIII."
This reminds me of a quote from Borges:
"These ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies remind us of those
which doctor Franz Kuhn attributes to a certain Chinese encyclopaedia
entitled 'Celestial Empire of benevolent Knowledge'. In its remote pages
it is written that the animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the
emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f)
fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification,
(i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair
brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that
from a long way off look like flies."
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