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Writings of Charles S. Peirce
Volume 2
Observers of the Solar Eclipse of 22 December 1870 near Catania in Sicily. Standing fourth from the left is Charles S. Peirce, fourth from the right his father Benjamin; sitting in front of them is Herbert H. D. Peirce, Charles’s younger brother. Photograph courtesy of Mrs. Peirce Prince, Herbert’s granddaughter.
Writings of
CHARLES S. PEIRCE
A CHRONOLOGICAL EDITION
Volume 2
1867–1871
EDWARD C. MOORE, Editor
MAX H. FISCH, Consulting Editor
CHRISTIAN J. W. KLOESEL, Senior Associate Editor
DON D. ROBERTS, Associate Editor
LYNN A. ZIEGLER, Textual Editor
Indiana University Press Bloomington
Preparation of this volume has been supported in part by grants from the Program for Editions of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and the National Science Foundation. Publication of this volume was aided by a grant from the Program for Publications of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Harvard University Press holds the copyright to those parts of this volume that first appeared in Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce (Vols. 1–6 edited by Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss, 1931–1935; 7–8 by Arthur W. Burks, 1958); Mouton Publishers to those that first appeared in The New Elements of Mathematics by Charles S. Peirce (4 vols, in 5 edited by Carolyn Eisele, 1976). For those portions of the text reproduced from Thomas of Erfurt, GRAMMATICA SPECULATIVA (translated by G. L. Bursill-Hall, 1972) and from Ockham’s Theory of Terms: Part I of the SUMMA LOGICAE (translated by Michael J. Loux, 1974), we gratefully acknowledge permission granted by the respective publishers, Longmans Group Ltd. (London) and University of Notre Dame Press (Notre Dame, IN 46556).
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
(Revised for volume 2)
Peirce, Charles Santiago Sanders, 1839–1914.
Writings of Charles S. Peirce.
Vol. 2- : Edward C. Moore, editor … et al.
CONTENTS: —V. 2. 1867–1871.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
1. Philosophy—Collected works. I. Moore, Edward C.
B945.P4 1982 191 79-1993
ISBN 0-253-37201-1 (v. 1)
ISBN 0-253-37202-X (v. 2) 4 5 6 7 8 02 01 00 99 98
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
Peirce Edition Project
Edward C. Moore, Editor
Max H. Fisch, Consulting Editor
Christian J. W. Kloesel, Senior Associate Editor
Don D. Roberts, Associate Editor
Lynn A. Ziegler, Textual Editor
Joan A. Vandegrift, Research Associate
Contributing Editors (Vol. 2)
Maryann Ayim
Jacqueline Brunning
C. F. Delaney
Donald R. Koehn
Daniel D. Merrill
Richard W. Miller
Richard A. Tursman
Advisory Board
Jo Ann Boydston
Arthur W. Burks
Carolyn Eisele
Karen Hanson
Kenneth L. Ketner
Klaus Oehler
Vincent G. Potter
Israel Scheffler
Thomas A. Sebeok
Manley Thompson
Richard A. Tursman
President, Charles S. Peirce Society
Contents
The Decisive Year and Its Early Consequences
Max H. Fisch
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Papers
C. F. Delaney
