Jon AS, As I said, I'm writing a longer article in which I cover all the details Just a short preview of coming attractions: 1. The story about paradisaical logic is used in R669 to justify the derivation of negation from a scroll. In L376, Peirce happens to use the same term for a logic without negation, but he does not use it to derive negation from the scroll. On the contrary, he uses it as an excuse for defining the blot as an affirmation, not a denial. Therefore, the blot cannot be used in conjunction with a scroll to derive a negation. 2. Please reread R270. He does state that the scroll (using that word) is "equivalent" to a nest of negations. He also draws both EGs. The date of that passage is 12 June 1911. In a loose sheet included with R270 and dated 13 June 1911, he talks about "the long dark tunnel of metaphysical speculation" in which it is so easy to mistake the cellar of hell for the cellar of heaven. 3. Since that passage about heaven and hell is only relevant to someone who had recently read R669, it would be irrelevant if CSP had no intention of including R669 in a final version of the article he was writing. Therefore, the loose sheet about heaven and hell has two implications: (a) CSP is rejecting the story that supports the derivation of negation from the scroll, and (b) he doesn't need to include it in the complete version of R670 since R669 will not be included in the final draft. I emphasize that this is just my opinion. But this evidence makes it very hard for anyone to claim the contrary opinion: that CSP preferred R669 to R670. John
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ► 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 UNSUBSCRIBE PEIRCE-L in the SUBJECT LINE of the message and nothing in the body. More at https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/help/user-signoff.html . ► PEIRCE-L is owned by THE PEIRCE GROUP; moderated by Gary Richmond; and co-managed by him and Ben Udell.
