Quite, Clark. On our naturalistic metaphysics in Every Thing Must Go, which takes both Peircean prope-positivism (based on the Pragmatic Maxim) and modern physics seriously, basically 2nd-ness is structural, and the law-like aspects are thirdness, not mental. The world that exists is nothing more, fundamentally, than structure. This view is sometimes called “structural realism”. Sung has produced another gross misrepresentation of not only the Peircean view, but of the concepts Peirce uses. It is annoying to have ones own views ruled out by an error like that (though some of our reviewers have done something similar).
John Collier Professor Emeritus, UKZN http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Clark Goble [mailto:cl...@lextek.com] Sent: Monday, 30 November 2015 8:10 PM To: Peirce-L Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] signs, correlates, and triadic relations On Nov 30, 2015, at 10:50 AM, Sungchul Ji <s...@rci.rutgers.edu<mailto:s...@rci.rutgers.edu>> wrote: f g Real Rose ----------------> Rose -----------> Mental Rose (Firstness) (Secondness) (Thirdness) [World of Structures] [Physical World] [Mental World] | ^ | | |____________________________________| h Peirce’s ontology doesn’t quite follow that. Firstness is the world of raw experience, ideas or possibility, secondness the world of reactions, brute force & actuality and thirdness the world of signs, connections and power (not necessarily mental unless one is careful what one means by that). So depending upon what one means by structure you’d have that in the third universe. Again though one has to be careful with terminology and Peirce’s shifts around a bit over time.
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