Dear Gary, lists - This is correct. This is also why not every phase of thought needs consciousness - even if Peirce was very insistent on thought being self-controlled. But he also realized self-control come in many degrees, not all of them necessarily conscious - even if consciousness probably allows for unprecedented degrees of self-control. Thus, he attributed to animals some degree of self-control. As to humans, he famously saw perceptual judgments as part of logic even if not subject to self-control. Thus, we must assume conscious self-control to be undertaken regularly during reasoning, but not necessarily all of the time. Rather - as Howard has often pointed to - many important discoveries entering the chain of reasoning are due to ideas and inspiratjons whose origin are neither conscious nor deliberate. Self-control here lies in the ensuing tests of them, not in their origin. Best F
Den 25/09/2014 kl. 16.48 skrev Gary Fuhrman <g...@gnusystems.ca<mailto:g...@gnusystems.ca>> : Stephen, Peirce sees conscious thinking as Thought (i.e. a sign) actively taking consciousness and directing it, rather than the other way round, as you here (and most people generally) see it. That’s one reason why Peirce takes the trouble to criticize psychologism. gary f.
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