> On Nov 8, 2016, at 10:55 AM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Yesterday I came across an interesting paper by Nicholas Guardiano, "The > Categorial Logic of Peirce's Metaphysical Cosmogony" (The Pluralist 10:3, > Fall 2015, 313-334; early version at > http://www.american-philosophy.org/saap2014/openconf/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=view.php&id=28 > > <http://www.american-philosophy.org/saap2014/openconf/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=view.php&id=28>). > He describes Peirce's theory about the origin and development of the > universe from the standpoint of each Category, always in terms of three > stages. > Secondness - chaos (1ns), reaction (2ns), regularity (3ns). > Thirdness - spontaneity/chance/freedom (1ns), evolutionary process (3ns), > fixed end (2ns). > Firstness - continuum (3ns), Platonic world of qualities (1ns), brute > existence (2ns). > Guardiano thus presents the three most common interpretations, and does so in > this particular order. I offer three observations about this, which may or > may not be significant. > The Category that provides the point of view for the analysis always > corresponds to the second stage. > The stage associated with Firstness always precedes the one associated with > Secondness. > The stage associated with Thirdness moves from third to second to first in > the sequence. > Gary R. and I have been advocating the Firstness perspective, while my > understanding is that Edwina primarily adopts the Secondness perspective. > The Thirdness perspective involves the hyperbolic absolute with two distinct > points, as Jeff described below.
That’s fascinating. I’ll definitely read that paper before commenting further. I’d not considered the idea that the types of analysis are from the perspective of particular categories.
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