Re: Doctrine Of Individuals

Re: Doctine Of Individuals
At: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2011-December/003739.html

Jerry & All,

I apologize to all once again that other business and pleasures
of the season have prevented me from keeping up with the current
discussions. I'm not sure how the matter of individuals arose this
time -- I think it may have been questions that Jim Willgoose asked
about the relative power of various logical systems. Irving Anellis
then contributed an invaluable wealth of historiographic detail that
I can but digest mere fractions of at one or two sittings, much less
follow up with my own spare resources.  So we have to continue being
grateful to him for that.

For my part, my mental push-down stack lacks the capacity to keep up with
A's interpretation of B's interpretation of C's interpretation of D's ...,
so I have a tendency to flush the filters and return to reading the prime
source at hand, in this instance, what Peirce had to say about individuals,
individual terms, logical atoms, and so on.

When I have managed to focus on that, admittedly not an easy thing to do,
I find, or at least suspect to find, previously unsuspected, at least by
many, anticipations and hints of logical power of an utterly novel order.

So that is what I will try to keep focused on.

Regards,

Jon

JC = Jerry Chandler

JC: Thanks for posting this set of fragments on individuals.

JC: The writings are well worth studying, particularly if one is interested
     in the leaps in CSP's mental development and his loss of correspondence
     with modern chemical theories.

JC: The changing views of the notion of "individual" is amusing.

JC: One should also note the inexact usage of the term "division" when in
     fact the meaning is "separation" (with respect to "logical atoms".)

JC: One is forced to conclude that CSP's notion of a "logical atom" is remote
     from any sort of relation to chemistry where the reference for an atom is
     an atomic number and the signs from the indexical object.

JC: It appears that he recognized this distinction and moved toward chemical
     thinking in his developments of his versions of graph theory.

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