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John, list,
I acknowledge your point, but even that rock's reaction involves
Thirdness; i.e., the material composition of the rock that defines
how it will react to an external force.
I think my possibly irrelevant point was/is that Thirdness
necessarily involves the community - either past or present community
- but, something beyond the informational isolation of the individual.
I agree with your comment that relativism "seems to be a more
intellectual process (reasoning)
than an immediate feeling or reaction. " What I'm trying to include
is its closure to information.
Edwina
On Sat 30/09/17 12:33 PM , John F Sowa [email protected] sent:
On 9/30/2017 10:54 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote:
> Firstness and Secondness [Feeling and Reaction] exist within
> the individual and, if the process of forming conclusions is
> confined to these two modes - it is indeed a relativist opinion.
>
> It is only within the action of Thirdness that the 'controlled
action'
> that is a reasoned process can develop.
In any perception, there is always an open-ended range of possible
interpretations. And the interpretations (first, second, or third)
always depend on the experience and nature of the interpreter.
A cat, dog, or human, for example, may enjoy certain kinds of music.
The most advanced kind of enjoyment, by a professional musician,
would depend on "controlled reasoning", but even the professionals
disagree -- and their reasons can span a wide range of options.
For Secondness, a rock will react to a sharp blow in a precisely
controlled manner. But humans may react in complex ways that
depend on their background knowledge and reasoning.
Relativism seems to be a more intellectual process (reasoning)
than an immediate feeling or reaction.
John
PS (cat anecdote): I heard a story about two cats that were
comfortably content while the radio played Bach and Mozart.
But when a dissonant 20th-c. composition came up, they left
the room. Their human also switched the station. Which ones
were feeling, reacting, or reasoning?
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