On 11/21/2017 11:48 AM, Mary Libertin wrote:
In para 4 states that the first use should be in bold to designate it as the first. This is similar in some ways to the type/token distinction...
Peirce said that selectives serve the same role as pronouns or a kind of artificial proper name, such as A, B, C in a legal document. As he said, "at the first mention of a proper name, apart from any special information about its subject that may then be conveyed, the name merely tells us that something exists". If you translate Peirce's EGs to his algebraic notation of 1885, you would replace the first dot with an existential quantifier. In modern terminology, the non-bold selectives with the same name correspond to *bound* variables that are within the scope of that quantifier. John
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