Re: Peirce List • Mike Bergman • Valentine Daniel

For its pertinence to the present discussion, here again is what Peirce wrote about the mathematical way of using individual or particular cases to make general hypotheses or suppositions:

• Mathematical Demonstration and the Doctrine of Individuals • 1

And just so we don’t forget that Peirce’s theory of individuals is not the run-of-the-mill absolute kind but makes the quality of individuality relative to the context of discussion — or the frame of reference as they say in physics — here is what he wrote about that:

• Mathematical Demonstration and the Doctrine of Individuals • 2

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