Leibniz Rewritten (Illustrated)

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In 1934, Paul Weiss, an American philosopher, the founder of The Review of Metaphysics, and the Metaphysical Society of America, called Charles Peirce "the most original and versatile of American philosophers and America's greatest logician".

In 1943, Webster's Biographical Dictionary added Charles Peirce’s introduction as "now regarded as the most original thinker and greatest logician of his time."

Max Fisch, a well-known writer of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment, commented Charles Peirce as the follow:

“Who is the most original and the most versatile intellect that the Americas have so far produced? The answer Charles S. Peirce is uncontested, because any second would be so far behind as not to be worth nominating. He was mathematician, astronomer, chemist, geodesist, surveyor, cartographer, metrologist, spectroscopist, engineer, inventor; psychologist, philologist, lexicographer, historian of science, mathematical economist, lifelong student of medicine; book reviewer, dramatist, actor, short story writer; phenomenologist, semiotician, logician, rhetorician and metaphysician.”

Without any doubt, Charles Peirce is in the row of the best minds with Henry George, William James, Thorstein Veblen, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

In 1899, Charles Peirce published his foundational paper to his theory of continuity LEIBNIZ REWRITTEN. In this paper, Peirce defined the notion of continuity that is of vital importance for an understanding of his metaphysical ideas and his Leibnizian heritage. He provided an insight into the shortcomings of the specializing scientism of his century. He also briefly traced some of the landmarks in the history of the principle of continuity, not only in its original mathematical formulation, but in its broad metaphysical and epistemological scope as a central component of Leibniz's thought. Charles Peirce’s perspective was quite opposite to Quine's contemporary scientist naturalism that Quine asserted that a continuity between science and philosophy was mainly a reduction relationship.

This is a must-read book to understand the foundational thought of Philosophy, Logic, and Science by Charles Peirce, one of the greatest philosophers and logicians in the world.