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 ----- Original Message ----- From: Clark Goble To: Peirce-L Sent: Friday, September 09, 2016 4:52 PM 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”) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------- 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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