Logic of Relatives (1870)

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Logic of Relatives (1870), more precisely, "Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives, Resulting from an Amplification of the Conceptions of Boole's Calculus of Logic", is the title of a 60 page memoir that Charles Sanders Peirce published in the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1870. The paper is one of the wellsprings of our contemporary systems of logic, and yet the full implications of its innovations remain but superficially explored to this day.

After a brief account of its historical setting, the body of this article traces the outlines of Peirce's 1870 "Logic of Relatives", noting a few of its more striking anticipations, interpreting its formulations with respect to the contemporary understanding of logic that it served to shape, and setting in higher relief a few of its promises that have yet to be taken up.

Contents 1 References 2 Bibliography 3 See also 3.1 References

References

• Peirce, C.S. (1870), "Description of a Notation for the Logic of Relatives, Resulting from an Amplification of the Conceptions of Boole's Calculus of Logic", Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 9 (1870), 317?378. Reprinted (CP 3.45?149), (CE 2, 359?429).

Bibliography

Main article: Charles Peirce (Bibliography)

• Peirce, C.S., Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vols. 1?6, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (philosopher) (eds.), vols. 7?8, Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931?1935, 1958. Cited as CP (volume).(paragraph).

• Peirce, C.S., Writings of Charles S. Peirce, A Chronological Edition, Peirce Edition Project (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianoplis, IN, 1981?. Cited as CE (volume), (page).

See also

• Charles Sanders Peirce
• Logic of relatives
• Logic of Relatives (1883)

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Logic_of_Relatives_(1870)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_of_Relatives_(1870), used under the GNU Free Documentation License