> On Oct 25, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > CG: I usually prefer to quote from EP 2 or RLT rather than CP for reasons > like this. (It’s just a pain to figure out the dates - although perhaps > that’s me) > > It is not just you--I have come to despise not only the arbitrarily jumbled > topical arrangement of the Collected Papers, but also the need to find just > the right footnote in order to determine the date of any particular passage, > which is often associated with an earlier paragraph than the one of interest. > Those dates are not entirely reliable, either. A good example of the > problems that can arise is a fairly recent (and very interesting) paper on "A > Neglected Argument" that still dated CP 6.486-491 to 1910, despite the EP > footnotes explaining that this is actually the first (unpublished) additament > that Peirce wrote in 1908; and treated CP 6.492-493 as part of the original > article written in 1908, even though the accompanying footnote states plainly > that it is "From an unpaginated fragment, c. 1896." >
I just wish RLT was available electronically as a PDF or ePub/Mobi. Right now I always have to go to my hard copy.
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