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I am going to experiment with an interlacing commentary on Peirce's 1870 "Logic of Relatives" paper, revisiting some critical transitions from several different angles and calling attention to a variety of puzzles, problems, and potentials that are not so often remarked or tapped.

I am going to experiment with an interlacing commentary on Peirce's 1870 "Logic of Relatives" paper, revisiting some critical transitions from several different angles and calling attention to a variety of puzzles, problems, and potentials that are not so often remarked or tapped.

What strikes me about the initial installment this time around is its use of a certain pattern of argument that I can recognize as invoking a "closure principle", and this is a figure of reasoning that Peirce uses in three other places:  his discussion of "[[continuous relation]]s", his definition of [[sign relation]]s, and in the [[pragmatic maxim]] itself.

What strikes me about the initial installment this time around is its use of a certain pattern of argument that I can recognize as invoking a "closure principle", and this is a figure of reasoning that Peirce uses in three other places:  his discussion of "[[continuous predicate]]s", his definition of [[sign relation]]s, and in the [[pragmatic maxim]] itself.

One might also call attention to the following two statements:

One might also call attention to the following two statements: