SOURCE: "Peirce's General Theory of Signs," in Sight, Sound, and Sense, edited by Thomas H. Sebeok, Indiana University Press, 1978, pp. 31-70.

In the following excerpt, Fisch presents a chronological ordering of Peirce's writings on symbolic logic

Both the general theory of signs and certain specialized branches of it, such as symptomatology and grammar, may be traced back to the ancient Greeks. But when today's semioticians speak of the founders of their science, they seldom mention anyone earlier than Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), and they mention him oftener than any later founder.

If Peirce was one of the founders, perhaps even the founder, of modern semiotic, when and how did the founding take place? What are his relevant published writings? What did he take the business of the science to be? What importance did he attach to it? How did he conceive its relations to other sciences? To logic...