Helmut, list,
In response to “.. failed to consider the possibility that all philosophers
form a class by themselves, or that what unites all genuine philosophers is
more important than what unites a given philosopher with a particular group
of non-philosophers”,
you said:
I also think, that
Gary F, List,
In the "Logic of Mathematics," Peirce makes a distinction between the general
class of genuinely triadic relations, and the species that are thoroughly
genuine in their triadic character. Here is a way of characterizing the
difference between the two.
In all genuinely triadic
Jerry, List,
I think there are essential distinctions between the experience that is written in the genes (instincts), epigenetic dispositions, and that which is written in in the memory of the brain, like cultural experience. I also think, that philosophers are not a class. Everybody is a
One more comment on Lowell 3.11 before we move on:
When we analyze a Genuine Thirdness, or the operation of a Sign, we find
Thought playing three different roles, which we might call the Firstness of
Thought (which is such as it is positively and regardless of anything
else), its Secondness
I was rereading Peirce's 1885 article "On the Algebra of Logic",
in which he presented the algebraic notation that was adopted
by Schröder, Peano, Russell, Whitehead, and the rest of the world.
In the final paragraph of that article (csp85p202.jpg), he wrote
It is plain that by a more iconical
