Hi all: I'm not a Peirce scholar like many of you, and a few months ago my subscription to this list was approved (it took forever). But I have a keen interest in Peirce's logic and philosophy, but without many of the necessary resources or your expertise. So I've been hesitant to post, and more interested in reading the messages put here. But there is one notion that I can't get out of my head, and I just wanted to put it to the test.
Is what Peirce calls speculative grammar equivalent to what philosophers call "conceptual analysis"? I guess I ask this because I'm interested in Peirce's "trivium": speculative grammar, critic, and methodeutic. It seems to me that this corresponds roughly to conceptual analysis, what we usually call logic itself, or the logic of argument, and some sort of generalized logic of methodology. I think in my own readings, I've thought that conceptual analysis does seem to be a very different kind of logic compared to what is usually considered logic: abduction, deduction, and induction. Before we can put arguments into propositional form, we first need a good grasp of the concepts we are dealing, and that seems to me to be the purpose of this speculative grammar. But I've taken a good look at this page: http://www.helsinki.fi/science/commens/terms/grammarspec.html . I'm undecided on whether what I've just said is true or not, probably mainly because he refers to his semiotics which I'm not entirely understanding. For instance, I don't fully understand how and in what sense should concepts correspond with signs. In a way, his discussion of his trivium is a sort of conceptual analysis, or speculative grammar, in that he divides up these concepts and undertakes to explicate their relations with each other. I'm also very much interested in his methodeutic, but I'm unable to find much more about this topic, at least online. There seems to be more books written about Peirce's logic than there used to be, but I've read just about everything I could find online. Anyway, thanks for any insights you guys will offer me, Kevin --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
