Peirce also defined both “singular” and “individual” in Baldwin’s Dictionary:

http://www.gnusystems.ca/BaldwinPeirce.htm

 

Gary F.

 

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Subject: Re: [peirce-l] Slow Read: "Teleology and the Autonomy of the Semiosis 
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Peter, List,
 
this distinction is relevant as long singulars and individuals are the same. 
But when the individual is a universal in time and the singular is the content 
of a perceptual judgement, then this distinction is not possible in that form. 
(Peirce writes about singular/individual somewhere in the first part of W2).
 
 
Best
Stefan
 
 
There is still a distinction, though. Perceptual judgements are hypotheses and 
hence testable, but they are not universal statements, which are the subjects 
of falsificationism. But I may be splitting hairs here...
 
Peter 

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