particular attention to the logical writings of the Schoolmen and the English.

Most
of the manuscripts deal with logic. One is a complete book, his Grand Logic of
1893, for which he could not find a publisher. This is a detailed study of
Aristotelian and Symbolic Logic, based largely on his own printed papers, some
of which are included in the present volume. About ten years later he began to
write his Minute Logic in twenty-three chapters, of which he unfortunately
completed only three and a half. The present volume contains the first chapter and
half of the second. The remainder may be found in Volume I. Volumes II, III, and
IV contain the bulk of those logical papers which will be published. Volume III
will include the published papers on Symbolic Logic; Volume IV, the
unpublished writings on the foundations of mathematics and logic.
Peirce: CP 2 Introduction p iii
The theory of signs given in the present volume was subsequently
expanded in the letters to Lady Welby, and is there shown to involve sixty-six
classes of signs. Not all of these were analyzed, however. The present volume
treats only of the ten classes of signs which Peirce analyzed in detail. His
divisions, which reveal not only how his signs are classified, but why, for
example, there is only one kind of abduction, two kinds of deduction, and three
kinds of induction, are determined in part by the following principle: that which is
a Second is divisible into two parts, of which one is itself divisible into two parts,
etc., and that which is a Third is divisible into three parts, one of which is a First,
another of which is a Second, (and thus divisible into two parts), and the last a
Third, which is itself divisible into threes, and so on, apparently without end. This
theory of signs is a new discipline; its application in detail he left for others. How
closely he thought it to be connected with metaphysics and pragmatism can be
seen from Volume I, book iii, chapter 6, and from Volume IV, book i, chapter 6.
Peirce: CP 2 Introduction p iv
The aspect of logic which seems to have interested him longest and most
deeply, and which makes his studies significant even today, is scientific
methodology, particularly the logic of discovery. This includes his development
of the "frequency theory" of probability, his original theory of abduction, or the
method of obtaining new ideas, and his novel treatment of induction which is
shown to be closely related to the other two methods.
Peirce: CP 2 Introduction p iv
The papers in this volume are in some cases forty years apart, yet they do
not differ as widely as might be expected, largely because of Peirce's practice of
expanding, clarifying, and working over the theories he early developed. The later
papers differ from the earlier in detail and in clarity rather than in point of view;
and where they do so differ, Peirce has usually indicated what the difference is.
Peirce: CP 2 Introduction p iv
It has been particularly difficult to select representative papers for this
volume, because of the necessity of choosing from a great number of manuscripts
covering in divergent ways the same ground from the same point of view. For the
theory of signs an interweaving of many papers was necessary; for the logic of