Colleagues, > On Dec 14, 2024, at 5:05 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > CSP: In the light of the doctrine of categories I should say that an object, > to be esthetically good, must have a multitude of parts so related to one > another as to impart a positive simple immediate quality to their totality; > and whatever does this is, in so far, esthetically good, no matter what the > particular quality of the total may be. (CP 5.132, EP 2:201, 1903) > > The content of consciousness is a top-down "positive simple immediate > quality," not a bottom-up assemblage of diverse qualities. >
In my opinion, Jon’s rhetoric stance is often only a peculiar stance that I find to be remote from the chemical meanings associated CSP’s writings. The above conclusion, imagined by Jon, is remote from the precision of the logic of atomicity and its applications to the natural sciences, then and now. A positive immediate quality (sensible) may be composed from many many intermediate qualities without resorting to the negation that Jon asserts. The logically, scientifically and mathematically crucial distinction is CSP’s assertion > must have a multitude of parts so related to one another It is the concept of relation, in the postmodern sense (sensible) of John Deely (Poinsot / Aristotelian categories) that contradicts Jon’s wild assertion. Cheers Jerry
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