Abstract This article presents a short but detailed account of the current issues facing Peirce scholarship in efforts to preserve and interpret Peirce’s massive corpus archived at Harvard. The significance of Peirce’s multimodal writings (including colorful graphics and text), along with his convoluted processes of inquiry in the development of his philosophy, are examined to indicate why the representational experiments in his manuscripts, and their topological continuity, defy the limitations of conventional publishing. With full and effective access to his entire corpus, scholars could trace the self-critical evolution of Peirce’s ideas, from origins to mature expressions, and thereby gain a more complete understanding of his immense intellectual offering to humanity. Here, in this first article (in a series of four), we begin to identify what will be required.

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皮尔士手稿的隐藏宝藏

摘要本文简要介绍了皮尔斯奖学金在保护和解释哈佛档案馆中庞大的语料库方面所面临的当前问题。考察了皮尔士的多模式作品（包括彩色图形和文字）的重要性，以及他在哲学发展过程中费解的探究过程，以说明为什么手稿中的代表性实验及其拓扑连续性克服了传统方法的局限性出版。通过充分有效地利用他的整个语料库，学者们可以追溯皮尔士思想的自批判性演变，从起源到成熟的表达方式，从而更加全面地理解他对人类的巨大贡献。这里，在第一篇文章（共四篇）中，