"CSP: Finally, as what anything really is, is what it may finally come to be known to be in the ideal state of complete information, so that reality depends on the ultimate decision of the community; so thought is what it is, only by virtue of its addressing a future thought which is in its value as thought identical with it, though more developed. In this way, the existence of thought now depends on what is to be hereafter; so that it has only a potential existence, dependent on the future thought of the community. (CP 5.316, EP 1:54-55, 1868)"
Although this quote goes a long way toward envisioning an empirical process or an ontology (i.e. the process of science and an understanding of what and how what is is), it seems almost completely inapplicable to the process of making art or a poem. This is a major shortcoming, it seems to me, in Peirce, a shortcoming Dewey, for one, addressed. SxS On Dec 20, 2020, at 3:29 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com<mailto:jonalanschm...@gmail.com>> wrote: CAUTION: This email originated from outside of our organization. Do not click links, open attachments, or respond unless you recognize the sender's email address and know the contents are safe. Gary F., List: I suggest that we interpret that particular statement in light of what comes right before it. CSP: Finally, as what anything really is, is what it may finally come to be known to be in the ideal state of complete information, so that reality depends on the ultimate decision of the community; so thought is what it is, only by virtue of its addressing a future thought which is in its value as thought identical with it, though more developed. In this way, the existence of thought now depends on what is to be hereafter; so that it has only a potential existence, dependent on the future thought of the community. (CP 5.316, EP 1:54-55, 1868) Note that Peirce wrote the article in which these quotes appear ("Some Consequences of Four Incapacities") at age 28, not 18. He is contrasting the individual human, "apart from his fellows," with "the community" whose collective thought would "be in the ideal state of complete information" after infinite inquiry and thus would know "what anything really is." This is the telos of the ongoing process of semiosis that Richard Kenneth Atkins calls "cognitive welding" in his 2016 book, Peirce and the Conduct of Life: Sentiment and Instinct in Ethics and Religion. To the extent that each of us suffers from "ignorance and error," we have a "separate existence" from the continuum of Truth that is represented in existential graphs by the sheet of assertion. Again, whether this "negation" is "symmetrical by composition" or unsymmetrical depends on whether excluded middle holds, such that every proposition is either true or false; and Peirce states plainly, "This assumption ... I consider utterly unwarranted, and do not believe it" (NEM 3:758, 1893). That is why "Triadic Logic does not conflict with Dyadic Logic; only, it recognizes, what the latter does not" such that "Triadic Logic is universally true" (R 339:515[344r], 1909). Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2FJonAlanSchmidt&data=04%7C01%7Cs.skaggs%40louisville.edu%7Ca9851e95184c4889a02808d8a5260402%7Cdd246e4a54344e158ae391ad9797b209%7C0%7C0%7C637440929991864586%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=EeoVcaMLHaoiftefX%2F8iSR8KGPKmxVTalb7ir7IVD38%3D&reserved=0> - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt<https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FJonAlanSchmidt&data=04%7C01%7Cs.skaggs%40louisville.edu%7Ca9851e95184c4889a02808d8a5260402%7Cdd246e4a54344e158ae391ad9797b209%7C0%7C0%7C637440929991864586%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=B%2BkPRpNK75Loezk%2BqjQKS6m33UpIP8q5SZxGLLwALPc%3D&reserved=0> On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 6:59 AM <g...@gnusystems.ca<mailto:g...@gnusystems.ca>> wrote: Thanks, Jon Alan, I think I’m aboard this train of thought, although it’s taking me into unfamiliar territory. I hadn’t really considered that a relation of negation can be either symmetrical or asymmetrical. I wonder which case applies to this early (18) remark of Peirce’s: “The individual man, since his separate existence is manifested only by ignorance and error, so far as he is anything apart from his fellows, and from what he and they are to be, is only a negation” (EP1:55, CP 5.317). Either? Both? Neither? Gary f. } Judge not, that ye be not judged. 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