Auke, Jon A, List, AvB> I did like this ms fragment very much: "It is not so much the history of science as it is the history of sound scientific thinking which I am considering" [Peirce MS 12801]. JA> Exactly! We interpret texts in relation to the object in view. Yes. Words are highly ambiguous, and the "object in view" is an essential part of the context or "collateral experience" in terms of which the words are interpreted. That is the essence of Peirce's diagrammatic reasoning: always interpret the words (or other symbols) in terms of some diagram (or image or icon) of the subject matter. As Eisele said in the PDF: "Some iconic or symbolic form is adopted to represent the given premises." Note that she wrote "symbolic form". where the word 'form' is a diagram that relates the symbols -- as in an existential graph or a drawing by Euclid. In summary, words by themselves are just the starting point. The "collateral experience" for interpreting the words is a diagram, image, or form that is necessary to determine the relevant word senses in any given context. John
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