John, I went through Venn's book with a fine-toothed comb. It was, and still is, a most excellent introduction to empirical logic, but nothing was groundbreaking. I think of it as Inductive Logic 101, and Peirce's Illustrations on the Logic of Science as Induction 201.
Peirce mentioned the book somewhere in the Collected Papers, but doesn't say much. If I recall correctly, he picks at a detail. Venn's book, The Logic of Chance, was more groundbreaking, but not to Peirce. Peirce writes a bit more on that book in the Collected Papers. I've only seen Venn mention Peirce in regard to Peirce's symbolism for symbolic logic. It's too bad there wasn't more interaction between the two. To my taste, I would love to read a logic book with Venn's prose, consummately organized as he's done with his three logic books, but including Peirce's concepts. To me, reading Venn is like taking a long pleasant walk through the woods with my wise grandpa. I'm sure others have complained that the walk could have been significantly shortened and still have covered the same info. Peirce complained… something about too much talk about words. Matt On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:36 AM John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > On 5/17/2018 3:34 PM, Matt Faunce wrote: > > John Venn, in Principles of Empirical or Inductive Logic. pg. 277-278: > > Thanks for citing that passage. It reminded me of the value of checking > Peirce's sources and contemporaries in order to understand the context > of his writings. I found the book at > > https://ia601408.us.archive.org/12/items/principlesempir00venngoog/principlesempir00venngoog.pdf > > Venn's book was published in 1889. It would be interesting to see > if the topics and ideas had any effect on what Peirce wrote before > and after that date. But that period also included a disruption > in his life that was far more significant: becoming unemployed. > > John >
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