CP 8: Reviews, Correspondence, and Bibliography

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CP 8.55-90 (ref:5.1-59): his review of William James, Principles of Psychology (cited in Magda Arnold, Memory and the Brain)

CP 8.91-99 (ref:6.1-20) is Peirce's 1892 review of Halsted's transl. of Lobachevsky (God Created the Integers ref:43.1-433):

• Pierce, C. S.: 1892, 'The Non-Euclidean Geometry', in Charles S. Peirce: Contributions to The Nation. Part One: 1869-1893 , compiled and annotated by K. L. Ketner and J. E. Cook, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1975, pp. 135-8.

cited in: Michael J. Crowe, “Duhem and History and Philosophy of Mathematics,” Synthese 83, no. 3 (June 1, 1990): 431–47.

Chapter 4: William James, The Principles of Psychology

11/26/25Chapter 4: William James, The Principles of Psychology : 81

objurgation

11/27/25Chapter 4: William James, The Principles of Psychology : 96

[“It seems as if the elementary psychic fact were not thought or this thought or that thought, but my thought, every thought being owned.

pace Averroes

11/27/25Chapter 4: William James, The Principles of Psychology : 97

physicians are highly privileged that they can ask to see people’s tongues; for this is inspecting the very organ of personality.

or priests

Chapter 5: On Non-Euclidean Geometry (Ed.) Paragraphs 91-96 are the review of Nicholaus Lobatchewsky’s Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels (translated by George Bruce Halsted, Austin, 1891), The Nation 54(11 Feb 1892)116, with an added quotation in 93n2. Paragraphs 97-99 are from an undated manuscript, “The Non Euclidean Geometry made Easy,” Widener IA-2. Cf. 1.130, 3.134n1, 3.557. †1

11/27/25Chapter 5: On Non-Euclidean Geometry (Ed.) Paragraphs 91-96 are the review of Nicholaus Lobatchewsky’s Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels (translated by George Bruce Halsted, Austin, 1891), The Nation 54(11 Feb 1892)116, with an added quotation in 93n2. Paragraphs 97-99 are from an undated manuscript, “The Non Euclidean Geometry made Easy,” Widener IA-2. Cf. 1.130, 3.134n1, 3.557. †1 : 102

Euclid had had a difficulty in proving the sum of the angles of a triangle to be not less than two right angles.

He did?

11/27/25Chapter 5: On Non-Euclidean Geometry (Ed.) Paragraphs 91-96 are the review of Nicholaus Lobatchewsky’s Geometrical Researches on the Theory of Parallels (translated by George Bruce Halsted, Austin, 1891), The Nation 54(11 Feb 1892)116, with an added quotation in 93n2. Paragraphs 97-99 are from an undated manuscript, “The Non Euclidean Geometry made Easy,” Widener IA-2. Cf. 1.130, 3.134n1, 3.557. †1 : 102

instead of even bringing the necessary assumption to a persuasive shape, he takes as his fifth postulate (or 11th axiom, in incorrect editions)

How does Peirce define axiom vs. postulate? [cf. above the

Chapter 9: To F.A. Woods, On “Would Be” (Ed.) From a long letter to “My dear Dr. Woods,” written over a period between 14 October 1913 and 19 November 1913, with an added quotation in 380n4. The letter was sent to Woods, but it is now in Widener VB2a. Frederick Adams Woods, M.D., was a lecturer in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. †1

11/27/25Chapter 9: To F.A. Woods, On “Would Be” (Ed.) From a long letter to “My dear Dr. Woods,” written over a period between 14 October 1913 and 19 November 1913, with an added quotation in 380n4. The letter was sent to Woods, but it is now in Widener VB2a. Frederick Adams Woods, M.D., was a lecturer in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. †1 : 525

(Ed.) The psychological versions of Peirce’s categories of First, Second, and Third are discussed in [CP] 7.524-538, and the categories in general are treated in [CP] I. See also [CP] 5.290.

11/27/25Chapter 9: To F.A. Woods, On “Would Be” (Ed.) From a long letter to “My dear Dr. Woods,” written over a period between 14 October 1913 and 19 November 1913, with an added quotation in 380n4. The letter was sent to Woods, but it is now in Widener VB2a. Frederick Adams Woods, M.D., was a lecturer in biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. †1 : 526

Cf. The Thirteen Books of Euclid’s Elements, edited by Thomas L. Heath, Second Edition (Dover, 1956), Vol. I, p. 280.