Janet, Excellent, thank you for this. It seems more likely to me now that a digitization process somewhere along the way introduced the new errors.
With gratitude, Franklin Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 11, 2022, at 1:01 AM, Janet Singer <jsin...@measures.org> wrote: > > > Franklin, > The two errors you noted are not in the Dover copy — see attached. > >> On Jan 10, 2022, at 5:52 PM, pragmaticist.lo...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> As a follow up, I would love to get a good hardcopy, but I am now wary of >> newer printed editions. If you have a chance, might you check a couple of >> pages in your Dover hardcopy? I am attaching screenshots of the pages from >> my hardcopy. The first is in Ch VI, just past halfway through the chapter, >> and the second is in Ch VII, near the beginning of the chapter. >> >> These are not the only errors I found, but I think confirming these two >> errors will serve as sufficient evidence regarding the fidelity of the Dover >> edition to the original. So if these errors are not in your Dover copy, then >> I can try for a copy of that. If they’re already present in that Dover copy, >> I should probably give up hope on any editions published after 1958. >> >> I would be no grateful for your help. >> >> Sincerely, >> Franklin Ransom >> >> <image0.jpeg><image1.jpeg> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jan 10, 2022, at 7:53 PM, pragmaticist.lo...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> This note is also in my hardcopy. The errors to which I refer are not >>> these, but new ones apparently produced due to the digitization process. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On Jan 10, 2022, at 4:21 PM, Janet Singer <jsin...@measures.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> The 1958 Dover hardcopy makes these references to errors in the original: >>>> >>>> “This Dover edition, first published in 1958, is the first American >>>> printing of the work originally published by Macmillan in 1854, with all >>>> corrections made within the text.” >>>> >> <Note.jpeg> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Jan 10, 2022, at 7:46 AM, pragmaticist.lo...@gmail.com wrote: >>>>> >>>>> List, >>>>> >>>>> After receiving an off-list suggestion to pick up an introduction to >>>>> symbolic logic and use Wikipedia as a resource, it will be well for me to >>>>> clarify that I am quite familiar with symbolic logic, having mastered >>>>> sentential logic and predicate calculus, dabbled in modal logic, and >>>>> gotten to be familiar with Peirce’s graphical logic. The purpose of >>>>> understanding Boole’s work is not to learn symbolic logic—which is in >>>>> fact quite different in many respects from Boolean calculus—but >>>>> specifically to understand better the genesis of Peirce’s work in logic, >>>>> which I take to be a broader and deeper conception of logic than one >>>>> finds in studies of symbolic logic. >>>>> >>>>> Sincerely, >>>>> Franklin Ransom >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> >>>>>> On Jan 10, 2022, at 12:03 AM, pragmaticist.lo...@gmail.com wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hello list, >>>>>> >>>>>> It has been some years since I lasted posted, and I have only been >>>>>> lurking ever since. >>>>>> >>>>>> I am hoping to get some advice on reading George Boole’s An >>>>>> Investigation of the Laws of Thought. This is a text which CS Peirce >>>>>> references in his earlier logical work, and I was hoping to follow along >>>>>> Peirce’s early work by understanding what he used as a basis for >>>>>> developing his own ideas. >>>>>> >>>>>> I’ve had some difficulty though in trying to decipher Boole’s work. His >>>>>> earlier essay on his work I was able to get through, but the book proves >>>>>> more challenging. At first I tried an online PDF, but what I found had >>>>>> noticeable typos, the sort of thing one really wants to avoid in a work >>>>>> using a lot of abstract symbols. >>>>>> >>>>>> So some years ago I acquired a hard copy of the currently printed >>>>>> version from Watchmaker Publishing, but found the book still having >>>>>> typos. This is rather frustrating, as they’ve had over a century and a >>>>>> half to get it right. I suspect it has to do with digitization of the >>>>>> book and then publishing the latest hard copy based on this poor >>>>>> digitization. After trying for a couple years to get through it, I >>>>>> decided I couldn’t figure out if it was due to typos that I don’t know >>>>>> are typos, or simply inability to comprehend on my part, that has kept >>>>>> me from being able to interpret the work successfully. >>>>>> >>>>>> So what I’d like to know is if there are possibly any publications on >>>>>> Boole’s work, hopefully in relation to Peirce’s early logical work >>>>>> extending the Boolean calculus, that might assist me in finally getting >>>>>> through Boole’s book. Any advice or suggestions in regard to this matter >>>>>> will be appreciated. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sincerely, >>>>>> Franklin Ransom >>>>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>>> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ >>>>> ► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON >>>>> PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to >>>>> peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . >>>>> ► To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message NOT to PEIRCE-L but to >>>>> l...@list.iupui.edu 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. >>>> > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > ► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu > . > ► To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message NOT to PEIRCE-L but to l...@list.iupui.edu > 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.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . ► To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message NOT to PEIRCE-L but to l...@list.iupui.edu 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.
