12,080
edits
Changes
MyWikiBiz, Author Your Legacy — Monday October 21, 2024
Jump to navigationJump to searchDirectory:Jon Awbrey/Papers/Peirce's 1870 Logic Of Relatives (view source)
Revision as of 19:15, 10 October 2007
, 19:15, 10 October 2007→Selection 1: markup
<blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p>The letters of the alphabet will denote logical signs.<br>Now logical terms are of three grand classes.</p>
<p>The letters of the alphabet will denote logical signs.</p>
<p>Now logical terms are of three grand classes.</p>
<p>The first embraces those whose logical form involves only the conception of quality, and which therefore represent a thing simply as "a ---". These discriminate objects in the most rudimentary way, which does not involve any consciousness of discrimination. They regard an object as it is in itself as ''such'' (''quale''); for example, as horse, tree, or man. These are ''absolute terms''.</p>
<p>The first embraces those whose logical form involves only the conception of quality, and which therefore represent a thing simply as "a ---". These discriminate objects in the most rudimentary way, which does not involve any consciousness of discrimination. They regard an object as it is in itself as ''such'' (''quale''); for example, as horse, tree, or man. These are ''absolute terms''.</p>
