List, Part 2 of the slide presentation introduces Peirces universal categories with an outline of the 1867 paper in which he first presented his New List of Categories. This was decades before he started referring to them as Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, and 35 years before he started referring to his method of discerning them as phenomenology. Personally I find the New List paper to be one of the most difficult Peirce ever wrote, and I think André does a good job of reducing its argument to one slide. But I must point out that Peirces categorial theory, and his phenomenological method, went through several changes between 1867 and the 1903-4 writings which contain his most clear and cogent statements about them and about his method. For now Ill just mention one of those changes.
The New List paper was explicitly based upon the theory already established, that the function of conceptions is to reduce the manifold of sensuous impressions to unity and that the validity of a conception consists in the impossibility of reducing the content of consciousness to unity without the introduction of it. This was a Kantian theory of cognition which Peirce no longer accepted in 1886, when he wrote the following: [[ Kant talks inaccurately of the manifold of sense; in fact the first impression has no parts, any more than it has unity or wholeness; yet it may be allowed to be potentially a manifold, if we say that all that the intellect evolves from it lies involved within it. The pure First is essentially vivid, present, and conscious; for that which is dead or remote is as it is only for him who may perceive it. What the world was to Adam on the day he opened his eyes to it, before he had drawn any distinctions, or had become conscious of his own existence,that is first. ]] (W5:299) Peirces three Categories are recognizable in his 1867 paper, but there is a big difference between the manifold of sense and the phaneron, and we cant comprehend phaneroscopy without seeing the difference. I hope the slow read will lead us toward that goal. Gary f. From: peirce-l-requ...@list.iupui.edu <peirce-l-requ...@list.iupui.edu> On Behalf Of g...@gnusystems.ca Sent: 21-Jun-21 17:34 Continuing our slow read, here is the next slide of André De Tiennes slideshow posted on the Peirce Edition Project (iupui.edu) <https://peirce.iupui.edu/publications.html#presentations> site. Gary f. Text: Necessary assumption for the purposes of this talk: You are already minimally familiar with Peirce's three categories of firstness, secondness, and thirdness. 1864-1867: Initial search for a new conception of the logical role a set of genuinely universal categories should fulfill - Discovery that this set is small and gradually ordered. - Each category is a distinct and indispensable stage in the process of turning a cloudy manifold into a clarified unifying intellection. - Each category is found inductively and confirmed through the test of PRESCISSION, a powerful kind of heuristic abstraction.
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