John S., LIst: JFS: Furthermore, he never wrote anything about semes after 1906, except for one brief mention of the triad in a letter to Lady Welby in 1908.
Well, he never wrote anything *at all* about "quasi-predicates" after 1903; in fact, as far as I can tell, it only appeared that one time (CP 2.320, EP 2:282). JFS: The evidence shows that Peirce defined a seme as a predicate or quasi-predicate. Again, with sincere respect, it shows no such thing. On the contrary, he defined a Seme as a Subject--especially in accordance with his "proper" and "ultimate" logical analysis of a Proposition, which throws *everything* other than the Continuous Predicate into the Subject. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 11:01 PM John F Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/2/2019 8:16 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt wrote: > > Peirce did not introduce the concept of the Continuous Predicate until > > 1908, so anything that he wrote about Propositions prior to that > > reflects a different analysis--presumably the same one adopted in modern > > predicate logic, which you continue to advocate. > > No. Peirce's later extensions are built on his core semantics, > which is the foundation for 20th c. logics. See the short (5 page) > history by Hilary Putnam: http://jfsowa.com/peirce/putnam.htm > > Furthermore, he never wrote anything about semes after 1906, except > for one brief mention of the triad in a letter to Lady Welby in 1908. > Therefore, nothing he wrote in 1908 or later could have any effect > on what he wrote about semes in 1906. > > > I believe that we are now at the point where we will simply have > > to accept our disagreement and move on. > > That is certainly true. The evidence shows that Peirce defined > a seme as a predicate or quasi-predicate. Continuity cannot have > any effect on that definition. There is nothing more to say. > > John >
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