Article ID: CBB590791562

Neat, Swine, Sheep, and Deer: Mill and Peirce on Natural Kinds (2015)

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In the earliest phase of his logical investigations (1865–1870), Peirce adopts Mill's doctrine of real Kinds as discussed in the System of Logic and adapts it to the logical conceptions he was then developing. In Peirce's definition of natural class, a crucial role is played by the notion of information: a natural class is a class of which some non-analytical proposition is true. In Peirce's hands, Mill's distinction between connotative and non-connotative terms becomes a distinction between symbolic and informative and pseudo-symbolic and non-informative forms of representation. A symbol is for Peirce a representation which has information. Just as for Mill all names of Kind connote their being such, so for Peirce all symbols profess to correspond to a natural class.

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Authors & Contributors
Campos, Daniel G.
Kyriazis, G. A.
Ma, Minghui
Gaspard, Jeoffrey
Dunning, David E.
Shin, Sun-Joo
Concepts
Logic
Philosophy
Mathematics
Philosophy of science
Psychology
Philosophy of mathematics
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
North America
Europe
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