I enlarged and hopefully clarified my response here. Brief Notion of The Triad — Everything Comes — Medium http://buff.ly/1WhQxnr
Books http://buff.ly/15GfdqU Art: http://buff.ly/1wXAxbl Gifts: http://buff.ly/1wXADj3 On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Clark Goble <cl...@lextek.com> wrote: > > On Oct 28, 2015, at 9:52 AM, Stephen C. Rose <stever...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think the most relevant way to see the triad is that Firsts are vague > beginnings related to the opening of consciousness and consideration. > Seconds are real barriers established to require a collision. The end > result, the Third, is the area at which actualization, continuity and > manifestation in the world are launched. In terms of Peirce I think > continuity might be included at any poiint he considers what a third is. > > > Yes, I don’t think we can understand Peirce’s logic of vagueness in any of > its areas without understanding this basic conception of firstness, > secondness and thirdness. As I’ve mentioned I’m a bit skeptical of taking > Peirce’s early conceptions as a way of understanding his mature views such > as in the Welby letter. However it is interesting when we do so. > > I should add that it’s somewhat interesting reading the Timaeus here > relative to Peirce’s categories. In particular there’s an interesting > connection to the rise of elements in that work of Plato. There the forms > and space (khora) engender the elements. It’s hard not to see some of the > categories in that discussion. Although at best I suspect that might have > been only an early catalyst to how Peirce rethought Kant. But the forms > would be firstness, the elements secondness, while space/receptical are > thirdness. > > > > > > > ----------------------------- > 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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