John, List: JFS: To clarify these issues, search CP for every occurrence of "A gives B".
I did exactly that last night, and what I found has influenced my responses accordingly. CSP; ... every dyad by a particularization evolves a dyadic triad. Thus, A murders B is a generalization of A shoots that bullet, and the bullet fatally wounds B. (CP 1.474; c. 1896) JFS: By the same analysis, 'surrender' and 'acquisition' would be dyadic triads ... What replaces the bullet as the third correlate if we evolve "A surrenders B" or "A acquires D" into a dyadic triad? Incidentally, there are various circumstances when "A murders B" is *not *an accurate generalization of "A shoots that bullet" and "that bullet fatally woulds B"--e.g., if A and B are soldiers for opposing armies during a battle, or if A is acting in self-defense, or if B is not a human being, or if the shooting is accidental. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1:26 PM John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > Jeff and Jon, > > To clarify these issues, search CP for every occurrence of > "A gives B". Peirce states the issues in different ways, > but the following example illustrates the general principle: > > > A triad may be explicated into a triadic tetrad. Thus, A gives B > > to C becomes A makes the covenant D with C and the covenant D > > gives B to C. (CP 1.474) > > By this analysis, Peirce used hypostatic abstraction to convert > 'gives' into a covenant D that relates A, B, and C. But that > tetrad is "degenerate" in the sense that it is derived from > a triad. > > Earlier in paragraph 1.474, he writes > > every dyad by a particularization evolves a dyadic triad. Thus, > > A murders B is a generalization of A shoots that bullet, and the > > bullet fatally wounds B. > > By the same analysis, 'surrender' and 'acquisition' would > be dyadic triads in > > d. μ is the surrender by A of B > > e. m is the surrender by C of D > > g. ν is the acquisition by A of D > > h. η is the acquisition by C of B > > John >
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