Thanks Gary,
We have probably taken this as far as we can right now. Interesting that
you disagree with Joe as well on this point, as it was correspondence
with him that led me to overcome my resistance to firsts. Perhaps I will
have an insight like Peirce in 1902; perhaps not.
As far as inferenc
List,
The "Books till 2005" http://www.cspeirce.com/pastbooks.htm list now has
60 books, and the "New & Recent Books" (2006-2014)
http://www.cspeirce.com/newbooks.htm list now has 91. I'm not done yet.
I don't know how many people care about the following, but I've made
both pages more "acce
Maybe I am doing a phaneron and calling it a first. Qui sait? But this am I
took with me to the treadmill where I do these musement things the feeling
of foreboding. That it was real I have no doubt regardless of whether we
call it real or psychological - the latter (I posit) a designation
Nietzsch
Edwina,
I am aware that Peirce can be interpreted as thinking we can be aware of firsts
as unclassified “feels”. This is what I think led C.I. Lewis (among other
considerations) to describe uninterpreted experiences as “ineffable”. I don’t
see the sense of this, but I do think we can abstract f
Gary F wrote:
". . . firstness, secondness and thirdness are (6231-1)
elements of every phenomenon as Peirce put it,
. . . . "
This is also how I understood firstness, secondness, and thirdness based
on my brief readings of Peirce's originals and secondary sources. In
other words, I bel
Edwina, list,
I think we'll have space to discuss these finer points within the Stjernfelt
seminar, and as your last line suggests, we should leave them until then, so
that we'll be starting out on the same page, as it were.
In the tentative schedule attached, I've given September 1 as a st
John, list,
I agree that no phenomenon can be a "pure first", but for the reason that
firstness, secondness and thirdness are elements of every phenomenon (or as
Peirce put it, of the phaneron). However I disagree with your belief that
"we infer the existence of firsts from a theory of signs."
