I do not understand how these designations have any fixed or even useful purpose apart from whatever the First may be. It seems to me that the First determines what follows just as the sum of First and Second impacts and is changed by the Third. The designation of three aspects of the third seems superfluous as the
If the Sign is something pending and very much in need of a resolution -- suggesting an action -- it will be modified or enhanced or amplified by its encounter with the Index (2) and when it is at 3 whatever it becomes is not a matter of fitting it to one of three modes or conditions. If it was germane to say what might be the outcomes of the triadic process I suppose Plan Purpose Intent might work but such terms would merely describe something already arrived at not something ordained or fixed. amazon.com/author/stephenrose On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 12:28 PM, <g...@gnusystems.ca> wrote: > Continuing from Lowell Lecture 3.10, https://fromthepage.com/ > jeffdown1/c-s-peirce-manuscripts/ms-464-465-1903-lowell-lecture-iii-3rd- > draught/display/13928 : > > > > > > [CP 1.533] To express the Firstness of Thirdness, the peculiar flavor or > color of mediation, we have no really good word. *Mentality* is, perhaps, > as good as any, poor and inadequate as it is. > > > > Here, then, are three kinds of Firstness, Qualitative Possibility, > Existence, Mentality, resulting from applying Firstness to the three > categories. We might strike new words for them: Primity, Secundity, > Tertiality. > > > > [534] There are also three other kinds of firstness which arise in a > somewhat similar way; namely, the idea of a simple original quality, the > idea of a quality essentially relative, such as that of being “an inch > long”; and the idea of a quality that consists in the way something is > thought or represented, such as the quality of being manifest. > > > > [535] I shall not enter into any exact analysis of these ideas. I only > wished to give you such slight glimpse as I could of the sort of questions > that busy the student of phenomenology, merely to lead up to Thirdness and > to the particular kind and aspect of thirdness which is the sole object of > logical study. I want first to show you what Genuine Thirdness is and what > are its two degenerate forms. Now we found the genuine and degenerate forms > of secondness by considering the full ideas of First and Second. Then the > genuine Secondness was found to be Action, where First and Second are both > true Seconds and the Secondness is something distinct from them, while in > Degenerate Secondness, or mere Reference, the First is a mere First never > attaining full Secondness. > > > > [536] Let us proceed in the same way with Thirdness. We have here a > First, a Second, and a Third. The first is a Positive Qualitative > Possibility, in itself nothing more. The Second is an Existent thing > without any mode of being less than existence, but determined by that > First. A *Third* has a mode of being which consists in the Secondnesses > that it determines, the mode of being of a Law, or Concept. Do not confound > this with the ideal being of a quality in itself. A quality is something > capable of being completely embodied. A Law never can be embodied in its > character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how > something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must > continue to be. > > > > [537] Now in Genuine Thirdness, the First, the Second, and the Third are > all three of the nature of thirds, or Thought, while in respect to one > another they are First, Second, and Third. The First is Thought in its > capacity as mere Possibility; that is, mere *Mind* capable of thinking, > or a mere vague idea. The *Second* is Thought playing the rôle of a > Secondness, or Event. That is, it is of the general nature of *Experience* > or *Information.* The Third is Thought in its rôle as governing > Secondness. It brings the Information into the Mind, or determines the Idea > and gives it body. It is informing thought, or *Cognition.* But take away > the psychological or accidental human element, and in this genuine > Thirdness we see the operation of a Sign. > > > > http://gnusystems.ca/Lowell3.htm }{ Peirce’s Lowell Lectures of 1903 > > > > > ----------------------------- > 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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