Abstract

In an 1894 manuscript addendum to the seminal "How to Make Our Ideas Clear", which he had written in 1877, Charles Peirce stated that "there are many people who detect the authorship of my unsigned screeds; and I doubt not that one of the marks of my style by which they do so is my inordinate reluctance to repeat a word". However, if Peirce refrained from repeating words in one and the same sentence, he surely did not refrain from repeating words throughout all his writings, as this brief report will show. Here, we present the results of a lexicometric analysis performed on the vocabulary present in the Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, as they were edited and published by...