Existential import and Peirce's early realism about universals: the True Gorgias.

Peirce's True Gorgias is a brief dialogue from his essay "Grounds of Validity of the Laws of Logic", published in 1869. The True Gorgias exposes the fallacy of existential import. It has received no sustained attention in the secondary literature, perhaps because the fallacy is now familiar. Peirce'...

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Publicado en:British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 1143 - 1165
Autores principales: Atkins, Richard Kenneth, Reid, T. Starling
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