Peirce’s 1870 “Logic of Relatives” • Comment 10.4

From now on the forms of analysis exemplified in the last set of Figures and Tables will serve as a convenient bridge between the logic of relative terms and the mathematics of relations themselves.  We may think of Table 13 as illustrating a spreadsheet model of relational composition while Figure 14 may be thought of as making a start toward a hypergraph model of generalized compositions.  I’ll explain the hypergraph model in more detail at a later point.  The transitional form of analysis represented by Figure 15 may be called the universal bracketing of relatives as relations.

Resources

• Peirce’s 1870 Logic of Relatives • Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • References

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