New Elements (Kaina Stoicheia)

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NEKS.  Note 1

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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.

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<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.

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