I just now uploaded a verbatim version of MS 94, which
is the first Harvard Lecture of the lecture series of
1865. It is available in print in Writings 1 (the
first volume of the new chronological edition), but it
is of such special interest that an on-line copy of it
is important, too. It has to be interpreted with
caution as a statement of Peirce's view since it was
written some two years before the New List was
published, but it is clearly in a line of development
that finally shapes up into the New List and other
work of l867-1869 and some things are discussed in it
which throw light on later developments. Among them
are the idea of an unpsychological basis for logic as
a science, the idea of three worlds (the internal,
the external, and the logical worlds) , which shows up
at various times across his career; the pre-New List
view of the trichotomy that later becomes the
icon-index-symbol distinction, where the predecessor
of the index, as subsequently understood, appears as
the idea of a logical proper name; an account of the
way symbols work which is, in my opinion, essentially
the
same as that which appears in the New List as
expressed in terms of the idea of an "imputed quality"
being involved in symbolism; and is, I believe, a
permanent element of his thinking from the time of the
New List on.
And then, closely connected with this, there is the
relationship of Peirce's notion of how the general
word relates to the general idea, as compared how
Locke conceived this.. Nor is that all!
Anyway, I have been working on a running commentary on
several passages in it, which I will also make
available at Arisbe in a few days (on the resource
page), which involves some minor reformatting,
punctuating, and emphasis that is intended to make
more clear what he is actually saying, but I can
legitimately do this only if I also provide a verbatim
copy of the text at the same time that can be used as
a check on my supposed improvements of the readability
of the text and my interpretation generally. So I am
making the verbatim copy available first, for those
who are interested in this early work of Peirce's, as
providing clues to what is obscure in the New List and
later. It is on the Peirce Papers page, at ARISBE
and the URL for it is
http://members.door.net/arisbe/menu/library/bycsp/earlymss/ms94harvard1.pdf
Joe Ransdell
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