Re: C.S. Peirce • Doctrine Of Individuals
Re: Peirce List • Martin Kettelhut

I’ve been calling attention to what Peirce wrote about the “Doctrine of Individuals” (what we’d probably call a theory of individuals) for quite some time.  Just for starters, here’s a few entry points I was able to find right off.

• Conceptual Graphs List • (27 Nov 2000)
• Peirce List (Feb–Mar 2015) • (1) • (2) • (3) • (4)
• Mathematical Demonstration and the Doctrine of Individuals • (1) • (2)

To my mind this constitutes one of the most far-reaching insights in all of the thought Peirce passed on to us, making as it does a turn from the dead hand of absolute ontology to the rather more handy and pragmatic tack of discourse-relative ontology and interpretive information theory.

cc: Peirce List (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)