Writings of Charles S. Peirce: Volume 4, 1879–1884
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Writings of Charles S. Peirce: Volume 4, 1879–1884

A Chronological Edition

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Writings of Charles S. Peirce: Volume 4, 1879–1884

A Chronological Edition

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Chronology
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Read's Theory of Logic
  8. 2. Spectroscopic Studies
  9. 3. [Lecture on Logic and Philosophy]
  10. 4. Note on the Progress of Experiments for comparing a Wave-length with a Metre
  11. 5. On a method of swinging Pendulums for the determination of Gravity, proposed by M. Faye
  12. 6. On the Algebraic Principles of Formal Logic
  13. 7. Logic. Chapter I. Of Thinking as Cerebration
  14. 8. Logic. Chapter I. Thinking as Cerebration
  15. 9. Rood's Chromatics
  16. 10. On the Ghosts in Rutherfurd's Diffraction-Spectra
  17. 11. A Quincuncial Projection of the Sphere
  18. 12. Note on the Theory of the Economy of Research
  19. 13. Measurements of Gravity at Initial Stations in America and Europe
  20. 14. A large number of repetitions of similar trials
  21. 15. On the Value of Gravity at Paris
  22. 16. [On the State of Science in America]
  23. 17. Letter, Peirce to Hervé Faye
  24. 18. On the Colours of Double Stars
  25. 19. On the Algebra of Logic
  26. 20. Chapter IV. The Logic of Plural Relatives
  27. 21. Results of Pendulum Experiments
  28. 22. [The Logic Notebook]
  29. 23. [A Boolian Algebra with One Constant]
  30. 24. The Axioms of Number
  31. 25. [On Associative Algebras]
  32. 26. Notes on Associative Multiple Algebra
  33. 27. [Unequivocal Division of Finites]
  34. 28. [Jevons's Studies in Deductive Logic]
  35. 29. Width of Mr. Rutherfurd's Rulings
  36. 30. Logic; and the Methods of Science
  37. 31. Methods of Reasoning
  38. 32. Note on the Mouse-Trap Problem
  39. 33. Note on 0°
  40. 34. [On Propositions and Syllogisms of Differing Order]
  41. 35. Note on the Boolian Algebra
  42. 36. Proof of the Fundamental Proposition of Arithmetic
  43. 37. Comparison of the Metre with a Wave-Length of Light
  44. 38. On the Logic of Number
  45. [NOTES AND ADDENDA TO LINEAR ASSOCIATIVE ALGEBRA]
  46. REPORT OF A CONFERENCE ON GRAVITY DETERMINATIONS, HELD AT WASHINGTON, D.C., IN MAY, 1882 [Edited by Charles S. Peirce]
  47. STUDIES IN LOGIC
  48. Notes
  49. Bibliography of Peirce's References
  50. Chronological List, 1879–1884
  51. Essay on Editorial Method
  52. Symbols
  53. Textual Apparatus: Headnotes, Textual Notes, Emendations, Line-End Hyphenation, Rejected Substantive Variants
  54. Line-End Hyphenation in the Edition Text
  55. Index