The classic Christian Trinity triad is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Icon Index Symbol > Creator, Incarnation, Gift of the Spirit to those with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Books http://buff.ly/15GfdqU Art: http://buff.ly/1wXAxbl Gifts: http://buff.ly/1wXADj3 On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Helmut Raulien <h.raul...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Sung, Lists, > I so far rather think, that firstness is associated to representamen, and > secondness to object. So I propose the following assignment, though just in > the context of the christian God (because in christian religion there is > already a triad, the trinity, which, I think, is ancient semiotics, a quite > Peircean approach, long before Peirce): > Firstness: Representamen relation, possibility: Holy Spirit. What spirits > usually do is appear, and so they are representamens, because > representamens also appear and with their appearance they create a > possibility for whatever to happen next. > Secondness: Object relation, actuality, in this case indexical: Jesus, > whose (said) descent from both a human (Mary), and God, is supposed to be > working as an actual index (to humans) for the actual connection between > God and Humans. > Thirdness: Interpretant relation, Relation: God as creator or, in other > words, ground of evolution as well as aim of evolution (By this translation > "in other words" I want to stress, that I am not agreeing with creationism). > In other religions I think there are also such irreducible triads, like > Sat, Cit, Ananda, but also dyads like Mazda-Ariman. I think it is all not > reality but a matter of trying to find models for reality, and it is > interesting to look for quasi-Peircean models in religions. On the other > hand I am aware, that Peirce himself has interpreted the trinity and > assigned its parts differently than I just did. Which makes me insecure, > but I post it although, as it is not a theory to be stated, but only a > proposal in the work and discussion in progress, as always. > Best, Helmut > > *Gesendet:* Sonntag, 10. Mai 2015 um 04:19 Uhr > *Von:* "Sungchul Ji" <s...@rci.rutgers.edu> > *An:* PEIRCE-L <peirce-l@list.iupui.edu> > *Cc:* biosemiotics <biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee> > *Betreff:* [PEIRCE-L] Can it be that God is irreducibly triadic, a > Peircean sign, and a mathematical category ? > Hi, > > There are many definitions of God or its equivalents (Substance, Form, > Dao, Gnergy, etc.) but all of these abstract nouns may share one thing in > common, namely, the IRREDUCIBLE TRIADICITY. That is, these concepts may > not be completely described without employing three mutually linked terms, > concepts, or principles, like Borromean rings. This idea can be > diagrammatically represented as follows, which I hope is self-explanatory: > > > > f g > God as Possibility ------> God as Actuality -------> God as Regularity > (Firstness) (Secondness) > (Thirdness) > [Object] [Representamen] > [Interpretant] > | > ^ > | > | > |________________________________________| > h > > Figure 1. The hypothesis that God is irreducibly triadic and hence is a > Peircean sign as well as a mathematical category. f = ontogenesis (?); > g = epistogenesis (?); h = grounding, proof, truth (?) > > > In the Peirce-L post dated May 8, 2015, I also suggested that Mind may be > irreducibly triadic, and Mind may be a prerequisite for Step g above. > > If you have any questions, suggestions, or criticisms, let me know. > > All the best. > > > Sung > > > -- > Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. > > Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology > Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology > Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy > Rutgers University > Piscataway, N.J. 08855 > 732-445-4701 > > www.conformon.net > ----------------------------- PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply > List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts > should go to peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not > to PEIRCE-L but to l...@list.iupui.edu with the line "UNSubscribe > PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of the message. More at > http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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