Thanks for providing a direct link to your excellent primer on Peirce's distinctive practice of phenomenology/phaneroscopy/phenoscopy. The last term is new to me, and unfortunately an online search reveals that a "Phenoscope" is now being used in biology for performing large-scale experiments with small plants to ascertain "how genetic diversity shapes phenotypic variation" (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23452317/). In any case, your poetic opening is reminiscent of this passage in "A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God."
CSP: If one who had determined to make trial of Musement as a favorite recreation were to ask me for advice, I should reply as follows: The dawn and the gloaming most invite one to Musement; but I have found no watch of the nychthemeron that has not its own advantages for the pursuit. It begins passively enough with drinking in the impression of some nook in one of the three Universes. But impression soon passes into attentive observation, observation into musing, musing into a lively give-and-take of communion between self and self. ...So, continuing the counsels that had been asked of me, I should say, "Enter your skiff of Musement, push off into the lake of thought, and leave the breath of heaven to swell your sail. With your eyes open, awake to what is about or within you, and open conversation with yourself; for such is all meditation." It is, however, not a conversation in words alone, but is illustrated, like a lecture, with diagrams and with experiments. (CP 6.459&461, EP 2:436-437, 1908)
When the subject of Peirce’s “categories” arises, the discourse always seems to jump directly into theoretical issues and applications. Even in published studies there seems to be little discussion of the practice of phenomenology or phaneroscopy (or phenoscopy, the term Peirce introduced in the Century Dictionary). But I agree with Jon Alan that this practice, and especially the practice of prescission, is the experiential basis of whatever we can say about Peirce’s “categories” or “formal elements of the phaneron.”
I have accordingly tried to draft a short introductory-level ‘manual’ for this practice: https://gnusystems.ca/TS/pheno.htm. (This is now incorporated as the “Presign” into Turning Signs, as its introduction to Thirdness leads into some basics of semiotics.) Of course it’s possible that someone else has done something like this, perhaps done it better, somewhere on the Net, and if anyone knows of such a text I’d appreciate notification of it. Meanwhile I’d welcome any discussion of my attempt on the list, with a view to improving or expanding it.
Gary f.
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