In the program article ―The Architectures of Theories‖ (1893), C. S. Peirce presented his trichotomies within psychology, biology, physics and philosophy, and in terms of these trichotomies, it could easily be predicted, according to Peirce, what kind of metaphysics it would be appropriate to construct, a cosmogonic philosophy. But, other than presenting his very brief sketch of a thoroughgoing...

There are two major traditions in formal logic: term logic and propo-sitional/predicate logic, exempliied respectively by the Syllogism of Aristotle and the First-Order Predicate Logic founded by Frege, Rus-sell, and Whitehead. Term logic is diierent from predicate logic in both its knowledge representation language and its inference rules. Term logic represents knowledge in subject{predicate s...


 É frequentemente ignorado que, ao entender a percepção como origem da maioria, se não de todos os conceitos, pensamentos e eventos mentais, E.T.A. Hoffmann é muito mais moderno do que normalmente supõe. De fato, neste aspecto, ele está próximo algumas ideias Peirce Wittgenstein.