Re: [ontolog-forum] History of the Atomic Hypothesis

[Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>]

At 9:30 AM -0700 7/28/08, Rich Cooper wrote:

> John,
>  
> Re Pierce, you wrote:
>  
> (The
> only book he published during his lifetime was _Photometric
> Researches_, which was an improvement on the methods for determining
> the distance to stars: (a) classify them according to their light
> spectra and (b) within each class, estimate their relative distances
> in terms of their relative brightness.)
> ?
> But
> his major employment was at the US Coast and Geodetic Survey for 30
> years.  During that time, he taught for 5 years as a part-time
> professor at Johns Hopkins U (from 1880 to 1885).
> That
> was the time when he developed and published the algebraic notation
> for first-order logic, and he gave full credit to some of his students
> for critical ideas.
>  
> If he only published the one book, how do people today
> know about his work in semiotics?  There must be material
> published somewhere, perhaps by biographers.  Do you have any
> citations that describe his material at a tutorial
> level?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce

http://www.peirce.org/

First two items retrieved by Googling "Charles Saunders Peirce". Its even quicker than email.

Pat Hayes

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