Mike, Edwina, and Stephen
MB
I apologize for the length
Don't apologize, I agree with Edwina:
ET
Thank you so much for this scholarly, definitive analysis
of the term of 'action' within Peircean research.
It also shows the need for an easily searchable, chronological
ordering of well-edited transcriptions of all MSS by Peirce,
linked to high-quality digitizations of the originals.
ET
So the basic differentiation between the two types of action
should be: physical vs mental.
Yes, but note that Peirce said that the first non-degenerate
Thirdness coincides with the origin of life. That means that
'mental' should be qualified as quasi-mind to avoid the claim
that bacteria have minds at the same level of a bird or mammal.
SCR
it might be helpful to see if there is any way that aesthetics
could be brought in as characteristic of thirdness -- truth,
beauty, goodness, etc.
As soon as you introduce the term 'mental' that leads to the
normative sciences for value judgments about the mental aspects.
The first is aesthetics, which determines value judgments about
what is perceived; second is ethics for judgments about action;
and third is [normative] logic for judgments about reasoning.
John
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