Peirce’s Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics

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Peirce’s Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce’s theory of speculative grammar. The book traces the evolution of Peirce’s grammatical writings from his early research on the classification of arguments in the 1860s up to the complex semiotic taxonomies elaborated in the first decade of the twentieth century. It will be of interest to academic specialists working on Peirce, the history of American philosophy and pragmatism, the philosophy of language, the history of logic, and semiotics. Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 Logic as Objective Symbolistic 2 The Logic of 1873 3 The Johns Hopkins Years 4 How to Reason 5 The Schröder Reviews and the Logical Graphs 6 The Minute Logic 7 The Syllabus 8 Grammatica speculativa 1904–1908 9 Confines of Semiotics References Index