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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Published in:	British Journal for the History of Philosophy Vol. 33; no. 5; pp. 1143 - 1165
Main Authors:	Atkins, Richard Kenneth, Reid, T. Starling
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2025
Subjects:	Realism Universals (Philosophy) Nominalism Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 Aristotelianism (Philosophy)
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