Clark, list: yes, that's my point. I disagree with Jon with his confinement of
Thought to Thirdness. I consider that Mind, which is 'thought', is an action of
all three categories. To focus on Thirdness as Thought, which, again, to my
understanding, is Jon's view - is more akin to Hegel. All three cognitive modes
are 'the semiosic process', i.e., the action of reason, of thought.
Thirdness is an action of habit formation, i.e., of generalization, of
'predicate formation' 5.102. Obviously, it is a necessary action in the
formation of an actualization, a discrete unit, but I consider that thought
requires all three modes.
Edwina
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From: Clark Goble
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Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce's Theory of Thinking
On Sep 8, 2016, at 3:41 PM, Edwina Taborsky <tabor...@primus.ca> wrote:
My use of the term 'universal' refers to its use in the analysis of
reality.
i frequently refer to that 4.551 quote about Mind - but, in my view, Mind
is not the same as Thirdness. Thirdness is a semiosic process, one of the three
categorical actions of the actions of Mind - but the two are not identical.
I remain convinced that some terms are used in such a variety of incompatible
ways in philosophical history that they come to have a baggage that makes them
perfect tools of confusion. I suspect mind is one of those terms. Quite
frequently I wish we could do away with the term entirely. For all the problem
of neologisms in philosophy (including Peirce’s own use of them at times) they
do avoid that baggage.
Your point is very important. I can’t recall if someone quoted it already but
this quote of Peirce’s is useful. “I desire to defend the three Categories as
the three irreducible and only constituents of thought.” (EP 2.165 “The
Categories Defended”)
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