Here’s a couple of selections from Peirce’s 1870 Logic of Relatives bearing on the proper use of individuals in mathematics, and thus on the choice between nominal thinking and real thinking. 😸

• Mathematical Demonstration & the Doctrine of Individuals • (1) • (2)

Resources

• Survey of Relation Theory
• Peirce’s 1870 “Logic Of Relatives” • Overview

cc: Category Theory • Cybernetics • Ontolog • Structural Modeling • Systems Science
cc: FB | Relation Theory • Laws of Form • Peirce List