Re: [PEIRCE-L] Question about Boole’s An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

2022-01-10 Thread pragmaticist . logos
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 wrote: > >  > Franklin, > The two errors you noted

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Question about Boole’s An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

2022-01-10 Thread Ben Udell
Wow, and I found those multiple copies in Google books, only the 1854 1st edition but many copies.  I assumed that the errors were in those 1st editions and that you had found them. Well, maybe you can find more clues in a search on "Boole" in the collection _Studies in the Logic of Charles

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Question about Boole’s An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

2022-01-10 Thread pragmaticist . logos
List, I was just able to find an original copy of the book scanned into Google Books, and it is indeed free of the typographical errors found in recent editions such as my Watchmaker Publishing copy and in the version on Project Gutenberg. Several years ago it was not available on Google

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Question about Boole’s An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

2022-01-10 Thread Jerry Rhee
Dear Franklin, list, It is walking on landmines to figure out someone else’s intention and deliver your opinion out loud in public *as if *your opinion is the only one that is correct. However, if your purpose is, “to understand better the genesis of Peirce’s work in logic”, then you could

Re: [PEIRCE-L] Question about Boole’s An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

2022-01-10 Thread pragmaticist . logos
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

[PEIRCE-L] Question about Boole’s An Investigation of the Laws of Thought

2022-01-09 Thread pragmaticist . logos
 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