(Waiting my turn at the barber shoppe, so may have X minutes) Some time in the early 70s I got puzzled by a paragraph in CP4, CP4.306 I think(?), and spent a couple years poring through the microfilm edition of Peirce's Nachlass seeking enlightenment. Turns out the editors of CP had mangled Peirce's cursive forms of his dot-cross notation into a variant of more conventional typography. I think Shea Zellweger reproduced Peirce's script forms in one of his papers.
Have to break here ... Jon http://inquiryintoinquiry.com > On Jan 4, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Jon Awbrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peircers, > > McCulloch's paper was reprinted in Embodiments of Mind. The editions I've > seen had the main figure inverted, which may have interfered with its overall > reception. I corresponded a while back with Shea Zellweger, who wrote a few > papers extending this line. I think one is in the Sesquicentennial volume. I > don't remember Peirce using “chiastic”. Some people call it “dot-cross”. > > Back later ... > > Jon > > http://inquiryintoinquiry.com > >> On Jan 4, 2017, at 12:36 PM, Benjamin Udell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Harry, Jon A, >> >> Irving Anellis (deceased a few years ago) wrote two brief papers arguing >> that Peirce deserves credit for the propositional truth table. >> >> "The Genesis of the Truth Table Device" (Abstract, with link to the paper) >> https://escarpmentpress.org/russelljournal/article/view/2056 >> >> "Peirce's Truth-functional Analysis and the Origin of Truth Tables" >> (MathArxiv Preprint) >> http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.2429 >> >> The X arrangement of TT, TF, FT, & FF appears in the second paper, though >> not the X-dot symbols themselves. I think I've seen the X-dot symbols (or at >> least something like them), but I can't remember where, so I hope Jon knows. >> I searched for 'chias*' and 'chiastic' in Collected Papers of CSP, Writings >> 1–6, and Contributions to 'The Nation', but found nothing. An X arrangement >> of xy reflecting the values of v & f appears in CP 4, paragraph 260. (CP 4 >> is entitled _The Simplest Mathematics _, and the paper by Peirce called "The >> Simplest Mathematics" is in CP 4.227-323). >> >> Best, Ben >> >>> On 1/4/2017 11:31 AM, Jon Awbrey wrote: >>> Hi Harry, >>> >>> I did my senior thesis on this back in '76 but at lunch now. More later ... >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Jon >>> >>> http://inquiryintoinquiry.com >>> >>> On Jan 3, 2017, at 3:53 AM, harry Procter <[email protected] > wrote: >>> >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Shook, in his Dictionary of American Scholars, Vol 1 mentions Warren >>>> McCulloch “re-discovering, after Peirce, Dot-X, or chiastic symbols giving >>>> 16 possible truth-functions of a pair of propositions” (p 1544). >>>> >>>> Does anyone know anything about this? >>>> >>>> Yours, >>>> >>>> Harry Procter >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> From: Gary Richmond [mailto:[email protected] ] >>>> Sent: 23 June 2015 20:07 >>>> To: Peirce-L >>>> Subject: [PEIRCE-L] Philosophy of Education in the Semiotics of Charles >>>> Peirce
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