"But this is not what I mean, nor what is generally meant, by a collection of absolutely independent members. What I mean by that expression is that every member is distinguished from every other by possessing some one or another elementary and definite non-relative character which that other does not possess" Thanks Gary. Thus are we. amazon.com/author/stephenrose
On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 5:05 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > List, > > I finally found (just as I was on the point of giving up) a text in which > Peirce explains the relationship between his Existential Graphs and his > phenomenological “categories” (or experiential Universes, as he calls them > there). It’s one of the incomplete drafts included in R 300, which Peirce > entitled “The Bed-rock Beneath Pragmaticism.” I’ve been busy transcribing > this from the manuscript images at the Peirce Archive > https://rs.cms.hu-berlin.de/peircearchive/pages/home.php, and although my > transcript is incomplete, I decided to put it up on my website, because > parts of it relate to several of the current threads on this list. > > R 300 is a very interesting document, partly because it appears to be his > very last attempt to complete the *Monist* series on pragmatism which had > occupied him for over three years. The first two articles in the series > (Selections 24 and 25 in EP2) appeared in 1905, followed by the > “Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism” in 1906. In the “Bedrock” MS, > Peirce says that there would be two more articles in the *Monist* series > to complete his “proof” of Pragmaticism — and this was apparently written > *after* Selection 28 in EP2 (R 318, 1907), where “Peirce comes closer > than in any other to fully expressing his brand of pragmatism and to giving > a clearly articulated proof,” according to the editors (EP2:398). Don > Roberts dates R 300 “about March of 1908,” which is consistent with the > time spans mentioned by Peirce in the MS itself. > > The main part of “Bedrock” consists of 65 manuscript pages numbered by > Peirce. Much of it is about Existential Graphs, identity and teridentity, > etc., and may be of interest to John S. and Jon A.S. (Jon has posted some > quotes from it already). Jerry C. should be interested in the part where > Peirce says that the “most interesting term of comparison for Existential > Graphs is the system of ‘rational formulae,’ or graphs, that are used in > Organic Chemistry.” Helmut R. should be interested in Peirce’s argument > that the concept of *Sequence* (which does indeed involve time) is > logically *simpler* than the concept of negation. As for the partial > draft relating EGs to phenomenology, I think it might give some clues as to > why Peirce abandoned the project of using EGs for his proof of > pragmaticism. Any of this and a lot more can be found by searching for the > right keywords in the page on my website, http://gnusystems.ca/Bedrock.htm > . > > Comments or questions on this text can be posted here with the subject > line above. > > Gary f. > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > >
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