Arnold Shepperson wrote:
Jean-Marc, Patrick
Patrick has a point in that Peirce's categories are such that in
representation the higher-order presupposes the lower (is that the way
to use `presuppose, by the way?). Jean-Marc equally has a point in
noting that Peirce became a `Three-Category Realist' in his later
thinking. Both points seem to highlight the role of transitivity in
Peirce's thought, and perhaps the more solid sources for understanding
this may be found in his mathematical writings, I would guess. Also,
the Logic Notebook perhaps has more pertinent material than the CP,
the editorial dismemebrment of which is well enough known.
Cheers
Arnold Shepperson
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Hi, I don't think there's any contradiction. semiosis being an
inferential process that "reconstructs" the forms of reality, a third
can be created by a combination of a dyad with a monad. A second will
evolve into a Third. This will be an "internal" third or degenerate
third, a third by construction --call it what you like. but a third anyway.
the only forms that are directly experienced from reality are the
Seconds -- with which we experience the "clash" to use a Peirce
expression. Thirds are constructed by inference. Firsts are embedded in
Seconds.
the phenomenological approach which consists in studying how forms can
be combined together have the advantage that there is no need to resort
to teleology to explain how these forms (First, Second, Thirds) "can be
seen to emerge" from semiosis.
PS: this is an interesting discussion but I'm off the list for a while...
Regards
/JM
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