As I have written elsewhere, in the Piraha lg of Brazil, the word ibipiio (omitting tones and glottal stop) indicates something just entering or leaving perception. A very important concept in their value of immediacy of experience. I was largely unaware of Peirce and phaneroscopy when I originally wrote about this.
So this culture has an explicit concept of firstness one might argue. In work in progress I discuss this in Peircean terms. Unlike Peirce, however, they are strong nominalists. Dan > On Mar 26, 2021, at 11:47 PM, John F. Sowa <[email protected]> wrote: > > Gary R and Andre, > > > > GR> Has anyone to your knowledge done an actual phaneroscopic > analysis of anything (anything from a poem to a dog show) and > published a report on what he or she discovered using this method? > > > > ADT> Who has conducted such kind of phaneroscopic observations and reported > them in ways not assertive but suggestive? Why, Charles > Peirce himself of course. Most of his semiotic distinctions arose from a > preliminary long-sustained phaneroscopic observation. > > > > I would add that Peirce’s Photometric Researches (1878) is a detailed report > of his phaneroscopy and methodeutic, avant la lettre. He must have been > thinking of it when he published "How to make our ideas clear" (also in 1878) > and when he wrote his 1903 classification of the sciences. For relevant > excerpts from that book, see http://jfsowa.com/peirce/PRexcerpts.pdf . > > > > ADT> As a research activity, phaneroscopy does have a goal, but not one that > is biasing. Its goal is to identify patterns that govern the coming of > something into experiencing. Those patterns are not arbitrary, not fictive: > they structure the dough of what goes on in experience. They are > mathematizable in the sense that they manifest persistent forms that allow > them to condition in various ways the emergence of other forms that could not > emerge otherwise. Phaneroscopy makes good use of such mathematical clues to > make out the phylogenetic rules (as it were) that govern relations of > dependencies among forms within processes of > manifestation. > > > > To avoid bias in PR, Peirce was careful to analyze and compare his > observations with those of scientists from Ptolemy onward. Although the PR > book does not use the words phaneroscopy or methodeutic, I believe that he > later coined those words to explain the kind of research he described in that > book. > > > > ADT> Other example: Peirce’s MSS 940/941 (“Logic of events”, 1897-98). That > document shows Peirce as his phaneroscopic best, especially from p. 9 to 11 > in MS 940 and the whole of MS 941 regarding quale-consciousness, where Peirce > seeks to establish fundamental patterns of quale-consciousness. > > > > I agree that moving from qualia by themselves to patterns of qualia is > essential, but MSS 940 and 941 don’t discuss or analyze those patterns in > detail. > > > > ADT> > Usually such things are captured by poets, without they're knowing they are > good at phaneroscopy. > > > > Robert Frost was a poet who well aware of his methods. With a replacement of > the word poem by theory, a remark by Frost (1965) would be compatible with > Peirce’s writings: “I’ve often said that every poem solves something for me > in life. I go so far as to say that every poem is a momentary stay against > the confusion of the world.... We rise out of disorder into order. And the > poems I make are little bits of order.” > > > > ADT> I took Peirce to mean... “I am still lacking an essential triad of sign > forms, and that such a lack forces me to create all sorts of ad-hoc > complexifications that don’t hold up with any sort of elegance (e.g., > 'hypoicons', 'hyposemes').” > > > > Although Peirce only used the word hypoicon in MS R478 (1903), > Tony Jappy and Ahti Pietarinen wrote several articles about hypoicons and > related issues. Those articles led me to begin writing an article > "Phaneroscopy and hypoicons" in which I relate hypoicons to a wide range of > issues. See the attached file hypoicon.pdf. The bibliography has the > references to Frost, Tony, and Ahti. I also put Tony and Ahti on the CC list > of this note. > > > > John > <untitled-[2]> > <hypoicon.pdf> > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > ► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] > . > ► To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message NOT to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] > with no subject, and with the sole line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the BODY of > the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm . > ► PEIRCE-L is owned by THE PEIRCE GROUP; moderated by Gary Richmond; and > co-managed by him and Ben Udell.
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