Talk:°

A missing use?

There is an unfamiliar (to me) use of the ° sign in the citation below. This old text seems to use 1°, 2°, 3° as a way to abbreviate "firstly", "secondly", "thirdly".

• 1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton (page 318)

  The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.

Equinox ◑ 23:44, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

That's just a borrowing of º, represented as def #5 here. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 23:48, 11 January 2020 (UTC)