No, a belief can be a 'Dicent Symbolic Legisign' where the output/Interpretant
is in a mode of Secondness; this would be a minor premise - which is a belief.
[2-3-3]. Or a rhematic indexical legisign [1-2-3]..where the Interpretant is in
a mode of Firstness.
I didn't say that a belief was pure secondness [2-2-2].
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From: Clark Goble
To: PEIRCE-L
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Terms, Propositions, Arguments
On Nov 24, 2015, at 7:12 AM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote:
Briefly, a habit arises by chance and then becomes 'the norm', and thus,
strengthens itself and dominates other peripheral habits that might arise
dealing with a similar situation.
Habits are Thirdness and thus, generalities.
A belief is not necessarily a habit; it can be in a mode of Secondness, a
specific particular belief.
It would seem to me a particular belief is always still thirdness although it
may have an aspect of secondness to it. I don’t see how a belief could be pure
secondness. Even a particular belief is always still a general. I think you
want to say a moment of belief but then as belief it’s still thirdness but
there will be both secondness (action) and firstness (feeling) in the moment of
belief.
Even if we consider a belief in terms of its secondness I’m not sure that
resolves the issues in the quote at hand.
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