Jon AS, Comparing Peirce's texts to the instructions on a 5th grade exam is like comparing quantum mechanics to 2+2=4. William James was Peirce's closest friend. He had spent years talking with CSP and reading his writings. But he described Peirce's lectures as flashes of brilliant light relieved against Cimmerian darkness! James wasn't a mathematician or a logician, but Christine Ladd Franklin was. Yet she was never able to appreciate Peirce's existential graphs. Quine was a brilliant logician, but he couldn't understand EGs The only way to understaand Peirce's writings it to skim, work, read, work, read more, work... and repeat. And by work, I mean do the kind of detailed work that Peirce did. For examples, see Photometric Researches. John
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