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Full Idea
Metaphysics is gradually and surely taking on the character of a logic. And finally seems destined to become more and more converted into mathematics.
Gist of Idea
Metaphysics is turning into logic, and logic is becoming mathematics
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], I)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.120
A Reaction
Remarkably prescient for 1898. I don't think Peirce knew of Frege (and certainly not when he wrote this). It shows that the revolution of Frege and Russell was in the air. It's there in Dedekind's writings. Peirce doesn't seem to be a logicist.
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