List: Peirce was a synechist, not an atomist, especially with respect to qualities. Given any two qualities embodied in *actual *things, no matter how similar they might be, there is an inexhaustible continuum of *possible *intermediate qualities between them. The "positive simple immediate quality" of an "esthetically good" object can be *analyzed *into various constituent qualities, but it is not *built up* of them.
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Structural Engineer, Synechist Philosopher, Lutheran Christian www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt / twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 4:31 PM Jerry LR Chandler < [email protected]> wrote: > 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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