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==Commentary Note 1==

==Commentary Note 1==

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

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 relations", his definition of sign relations, and in the pragmatic maxim itself.

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 relations",

his definition of sign relations, 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:

| Now logical terms are of three grand classes.

Now logical terms are of three grand classes.

| No fourth class of terms exists involving the conception of 'fourth',

| because when that of 'third' is introduced, since it involves the

No fourth class of terms exists involving the conception of ''fourth'', because when that of ''third'' is introduced, since it involves the conception of bringing objects into relation, all higher numbers are given at once, inasmuch as the conception of bringing objects into relation is independent of the number of members of the relationship.

| conception of bringing objects into relation, all higher numbers are

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| given at once, inasmuch as the conception of bringing objects into

| relation is independent of the number of members of the relationship.

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==Selection 2==

==Selection 2==