Re: De In Esse Predication

jon,

given that two paragraphs later, Peirce writes:

> if the Devil were elected president of the United States,
it would prove highly conducive to the spiritual welfare of
the people (because he will not be elected), yet both
Professor Schröder and I prefer to build the algebra of
relatives upon this conception of the conditional proposition.

and given the bizarre situation that the devil HAS been 
elected President of the United States, what does this say 
about Peirce's or Schroder's logic, especially in its 
esthetical and ethical presuppositions?

Gary

Jon Awbrey wrote:

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> DEIP.  Note 5
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> | Cicero and other ancient writers mention a great dispute between
> | two logicians, Diodorus and Philo, in regard to the significance
> | of conditional propositions.  This dispute has continued to our
> | own day.  The Diodoran view seems to be the one which is natural
> | to the minds of those, at least, who speak the European languages.
> | How it may be with other languages has not been reported.  The
> | difficulty with this view is that nobody seems to have succeeded
> | in making any clear statement of it that is not open to doubt as
> | to its justice, and that is not pretty complicated.  The Philonian
> | view has been preferred by the greatest logicians.  Its advantage
> | is that it is perfectly intelligible and simple.  Its disadvantage
> | is that it produces results which seem offensive to common sense.
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> | C.S. Peirce, 'Collected Papers', CP 3.441,
> |"The Regenerated Logic", 'Monist', vol. 7,
> | pp. 19-40, 1896.
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