New Elements (Καινὰ Στο ιχεῖα)
Jon Awbrey <[email protected]>
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Peircers, I am going to revert to my usual manner of close-reading a text, which requires a separation between the source material itself, my own comments on it, and the associated discussion. I have found over the years that this way of doing things has many advantages, which I won't stop to enumerate at this point. The first bit of text that strikes a chord with me follows below, and I will say what interests me about it in a separate note. NB. I will frequently break up paragraphs any way that strikes me as useful for the sake of study. Regards, Jon o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o NEΚΣ. Note 1 o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o <Peirce, New Elements, EP 2, 300-301> I. I deem it useful to say a few words about this piece. Some years ago I wrote a book entitled "New Elements of Mathematics". ... Personally, I regret that manuscript has been lost; for it was the record of much close thought. I can never reproduce it, because it was written in the strictest mathematical style, and with advancing years I have lost the power of writing about logic in mathematical style, although in my youth it was natural to me. In losing the power of writing this style, I have equally lost my admiration of it. I beg permission to offer a criticism of the mathematical style in logic. I say in "logic", because it is only with a view of presenting the logic of the subject that mathematicians employ the Euclidean style. When they are simply intent on the solution of difficult problems they forget all about it. o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ mwb: http://www.mywikibiz.com/Directory:Jon_Awbrey oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache _______________________________________________ Inquiry mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/inquiry