Joe, Are you sure about the source page number? -- MS 339.493; c. 1904-05 Logic Notebook
Auke > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Ransdell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: woensdag 15 februari 2006 21:59 > To: Peirce Discussion Forum > Subject: [peirce-l] immediate/mediate, direct/indirect > > > This bears on nothing currently under discussion, but I > happened upon a note > copying a passage from the Logic Notebook in which Peirce > explicitly defines > immediate and direct and thought I should record it here, given how > frequently the question comes up.. Of course it may or may > not record his > actual usage, but only an intended usage at that time. But it can be > compared with other passages in which the terms are defined. > Anyway, it > goes as follows: > > > A primal is that which is something that is in itself > regardless of anything > else. > > A Potential is anything which is in some respect determined > but whose being > is not definite > > A Feeling is a state of determination of consciousness which > apparently > might in its own nature (neglecting our experience of it > etc.) continue for > some time unchanged and that has no reference of anything > else I call a > state of consciousness immediate which does not refer to anything not > present in that very state > > I use the terms immediate and direct, not according to their > etymologies but > so that to say that A is immediate to B means that it is > present in B. > Direct, as I use it means without the aid of any subsidiary > [unreadable > word] or operation. > > -- MS 339.493; c. 1904-05 Logic Notebook > > Joe Ransdell > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.8/260 - Release > Date: 2/14/2006 > > > --- > Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
