Philosophy of mathematics: Selected writings

✍ Scribed by Moore, Matthew E.; Peirce, Charles Sanders

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 335
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: [The nature of mathematics] (1895) --
The regenerated logic (1896) --
The logic of mathematics in relation to education (1898) --
The simplest mathematics (1902) --
The essence of reasoning (1893) --
New elements of geometry (1894) --
On the logic of quanity (1895) --
Sketch of dichotomic mathematics (1903) --
[Pragmatism and mathematics] (1903) --
Prolegomena to an apology for pragmatism (1906) --
['Collection' in The century dictionary] (1888-1914) --
[On collections and substantive possibility] (1903) --
[The ontology of collections] (1903) --
The logic of quantity (1893) --
Recreations in reasoning (1897) --
Topical geometry (1904) --
A geometrico-logical discussion (1906) --
['Continuity' in The century dictionary] (1888-1914) --
The law of mind (1892) --
[Scientific fallibilism] (1893) --
On quantity [the continuity of time and space] (1896) --
Detached ideas continued and the dispute between nominalists and realists (1898) --
The logic of continuity (1898) --
[On multitudes] (1897) --
Infinitesimals (1900) --
The bed-rock beneath pragmaticism (1905) --
[Note and addendum on continuity] (1908) --
Addition [on continuity] (1908) --
Supplement [on continuity] (1908).

✦ Subjects

Peirce, Charles Sanders.;Mathematics -- Philosophy.;Mathematik.;Philosophie.

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