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IT is difficult to deal adequately, even in a longer notice, with the extraordinary diversity of topics touched upon or discussed in these volumes. They fully support the editor's opinion that Peirce was “one of the most original and prolific logicians of the nineteenth century”. Vol. 3 contains mainly papers on the algebra of logic and the logic of relatives, in which several improvements on Boole's method are suggested. There is also an excellent paper on the logic of number, and an essay on “The Regenerated Logic” which contains some pertinent remarks about the relations between mathematics, logic and philosophy. For example, Peirce draws a distinction between logic and mathematics, to which he denies the character of a positive science in so far as it does not deal with any aspect of reality; while philosophy does deal with reality, if not through special observations, yet by the study of the universal phenomena of experience.
Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce.
Edited by Charles Hartshorne Paul Weiss. Vol. 3: Exact Logic. Pp. xiv + 433. 24s. 6d. net. Vol. 4: The Simplest Mathematics. Pp. x + 601. 25s. net. Vol. 5: Pragmatism and Pragmaticism. Pp. xii + 455. 21s. net. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1933–1934.)
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Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce . Nature 135, 131 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135131a0
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