Am 15.02.2024 um 04:11 schrieb John F Sowa:
The biologist Lynn Margulis explained that all living things from
bacteria on up exhibit goal-directed actions that non-living things
never do. Her simplest example is a bacterium swimming upstream in a
glucose gradient.
No non-living things would eve
As I wrote in reply to Jon, there is a cluster of words in English and other
languages that express the goal, purpose, intention, desire, or Thirdness that
explains why some agent does something. There was no single word in English
that exactly expresses the reason until Peirce coined the word
John, list
I think it would help if you defined ‘intentionality’. Is it involved in all
human actions? Did the bus driver intentionally run over the pedestrian?
Edwina
> On Feb 13, 2024, at 3:26 PM, John F Sowa wrote:
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> Edwina,
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> Please see my response to Mike.
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> I used the word 'i
Mike, List:
Indeed, the online Commens Dictionary entry for 3ns (
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/term/thirdness) consists of 21 Peirce
quotations, none of which includes the word "intentionality." Two of them
do have the word "intention," and here is the first.
CSP: Nature herself often suppli
Hi John,
CSP: "Some of the ideas of prominent Thirdness which require closer
study, preliminary to philosophy, are Continuity, Diffusion, Growth, and
Intelligence. . . . the idea of an endless row of discrete objects,
which is the image of the system of whole numbers, contains the idea of
Thi
Edwina,
Please see my response to Mike.
I used the word 'intentionality' because it (or something like it) is involved
in all human actions. For example, I can intentionally walk to the store. But
what about each step in the walk? In effect, it is intentional, but it's only
conscious when t
Mike,
I realize that Peirce mentioned "crystals and bees" in the same sentence. But
we have to consider his classification of the sciences. Pure mathematics comes
first, and it does not depend on anything else. It incudes all varieties,
including formal or mathematical logic, discrete math,
List
I agree with Mike. Thirdness, in my view, does not imply or require
intentionality. That, after all, suggests some kind of consciousness - and I
think we find Thirdness in chemical and physical matter - and these forms of
matter do not include consciousness.
I have a problem with the quot
Hi John,
I categorically disagree. Intentionality may be an example of Thirdness,
but is not definitive of it. JAS just posted "Continuity represents 3ns
almost to perfection" (CP 1.337, c. 1882), which I concur best captures
(with Mind) Peirce's prominent view of Thirdness, and contintuity do
Mike,
In every example and application that Peirce wrote or cited, Thirdness involves
intentionality. But intentionality is not an anthropomorphic notion, it is
biomorphic in the most fundamental sense.
Lynn Margulis wrote that a bacterium swimming upstream in a glucose gradient is
a primitiv
Mike, list
I’d define energy as 1ns, with matter being 2ns, and information as these units
of 2ns defined within 3ns.
By ‘indexicality of locality, I mean that matter functions only within
relations with other matter . That is, there is no such thing as an
entity/unit//Sign, that is isolate. E
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