[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-25 Thread Frances Kelly
Frances to Joe and others... There is a tendency for me to equate immediate or immediacy with all metaphysical quiddities and representamens that are not signs, as well as with all categorical primaries and firstnesses or firsts and qualities that exist to sense, but especially to align them with

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-25 Thread Cassiano Terra Rodrigues
Dear List: in respect for fund raising for the edition of CSP's papers, the Peirce Edition Project at Indianapolis is always in search of funds, Nathan Houser and everybody else there are working a lot for the work on the CSP's papers. more info can be found at their website:

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-23 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Gary Richmond wrote: Ben, list, It seems to me that you are quite right about the distinctly un-English use of the ordinals 'First', 'Second' and 'Third' by Peirce in the passages being considered. Capitalization is used for 'terms defined' as he writes, for example, at the beginning of the

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-23 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Joseph Ransdell wrote: Here is a verifying passage:, from the neglected Argument paper Peirce: CP 6.452 The word God, so capitalized (as we Americans say), is the definable proper name, signifying Ens necessarium; in my belief Really creator of all three Universes of Experience.

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-23 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Benjamin Udell wrote: Aw Jim, you're a trouble maker! 66~~ *A _Sign_, or _Representamen_, is a First which stands in such genuine triadic relation to a Second, called its _Object_, as to be capable of detemining a Third, called its _Interpretant, to assume the same

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-23 Thread Jim Piat
Ben wrote: Aw Jim, you're a trouble maker! 66~~ *A _Sign_, or _Representamen_, is a First which stands in such genuine triadic relation to a Second, called its _Object_, as to be capable of detemining a Third, called its _Interpretant, to assume the same triadic relation to its

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-23 Thread Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen
itself may be some other difference of course. Kind regards, Wilfred -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Benjamin Udell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 23 juni 2006 8:22 Aan: Peirce Discussion Forum Onderwerp: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Gary, Joe, list

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-23 Thread Gary Richmond
Jim, Ben, List, Jim Piat wrote: Yes, but Peirce also wrote (chapter 20 Trichotomic of The Essential Peirce Vol 1 page 281 line two of paragraph two) that "A sign is a third mediating between the mind addressed and the object represented". So I find this confusing. There are so many

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-23 Thread Gary Richmond
PS I should have added this excerpt in relation to the TRICHOTOMIC passage as it reminds us that categorial Thirdness == mediation and that all three elements in a genuine trichotomic relationship mediate between the other two in some sense. CP 1.328 I. . .. Thirdness, in the sense of the

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-23 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Gary Richmond wrote: ...btw, do you or anyone else know of any other place where he refers to 'sign' as a third?) I know only of this one, which I think may illuminate the passage being considered in so far as Peirce notes that "in genuine Thirdness, the first, the second, and the third

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-23 Thread Jim Piat
Dear Joe and Frances, This is not directly to your concerns but may be of some related interest: On page 106 of Volume 1 of the Essential Peirce (chapter 6 --On a New Class of Observations, Suggested by the Principles of Logic) I find the following Peirce QUOTE: It is usually admited

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Joseph Ransdell
to answer you with the same point that Ben made and didn't want to feel required to duplicate it. Joe . - Original Message - From: Jean-Marc Orliaguet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 1:18 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Joseph Ransdell wrote: I was intending to warn Ben against adopting a bullying tone toward you, as his frustration seemed to be mounting. Perhaps a mistake on my part but a response in part to your own complaints about his tone, which you were construing as an attempt to silence you. Also I

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
before answering, I'd like to comment on an obvious confusion (see below) Benjamin Udell wrote: [...] -- are defined by reference to the Sign, the Object, and the Interpretant, respectively. The Sign is the First, the Object is the Second, and the Interpretant is the Third. In CP227-229,

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Benjamin Udell
Jean-Marc, list It is unfortunate that Peirce used the terms 'First', 'Second' and 'Third' in the place of ordinals when he used the same vocabulary for the categories. In the texts that you chose the terms do not refer to categories, they simply refer to 3 things presented in a given

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Benjamin Udell wrote: Jean-Marc, list It is unfortunate that Peirce used the terms 'First', 'Second' and 'Third' in the place of ordinals when he used the same vocabulary for the categories. In the texts that you chose the terms do not refer to categories, they simply refer to 3 things

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Frances Kelly
Frances to Ben and others... In the decadic table or model, the ten classes of signs seem to deal with immediate objects, and dynamic objects, and sparse selections of immediate and dynamic and final interpretants. The decagon does not seem to deal with immediate representamens whatsoever, except

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Jim Piat
Dear Ben, Jean-Marc, list-- For what its worth, it also struck me that Peirce's use of the terms first, second and third in the context cited by Jean-Marc is as Jean-Marc suggests merely a way of indicating the three elements involved when (A) Something --a sign, (B) stands for Something

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Benjamin Udell
: Jim Piat [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:12 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Dear Ben, Jean-Marc, list-- For what its worth, it also struck me that Peirce's use of the terms first, second

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Joseph Ransdell
. Joe Ransdell . - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Aw Jim, you're a trouble maker! 66~~ *A _Sign_

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-22 Thread Joseph Ransdell
faculty or impotence to represent it. Joe Ransdell - Original Message - From: Joseph Ransdell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 10:18 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) I agree, Ben. Peirce

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Joseph Ransdell wrote: Jean-Marc says: I am surprised that you are claiming that the classes can be traversed by a unique, natural, ordered sequence from 1 to 10 while at the same time you claim to have come up with a structure similar to a lattice, these are contradictory assertions. REPLY: I

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Bernard Morand wrote: Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: the classification is obtained in a deductive the way, but the sequence order is arbitrary. let us say I want to classify a group of people according to 2 divisions: - men / women (1st division) - under age / adult (2nd division) that's

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread gnusystems
I'd like to second what Joe says here, [[ but my own interest in the classification system is not with what can be learned from it by manipulating graphical models of it but with understanding what use it might have when it comes to understanding how to apply it in the analysis and

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
gnusystems wrote: I'd like to second what Joe says here, [[ but my own interest in the classification system is not with what can be learned from it by manipulating graphical models of it but with understanding what use it might have when it comes to understanding how to apply it in the

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
- Original Message - From: Jean-Marc Orliaguet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:15 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) gnusystems wrote: I'd like to second what Joe says here, [[ but my

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
in the series monistic, dualistic). Best, Ben Udell - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:36 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Jean-Marc, list, I

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Joseph Ransdell
PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:20 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Joseph Ransdell wrote: Jean-Marc says: I am surprised that you are claiming that the classes can be traversed by a unique, natural

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:23 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) The numbers can be ignored altogether as far as I am concerned, or one could use, say, the Greek alphabet instead of numbers or just leave the numbers off. All that is important for me

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Benjamin Udell wrote: Jean-Marc, list, I don't even agree in the end with Peirce's classification but it's pretty obvious that whether one partially or totally orders the 10 classes depends on the criteria. And it's pretty obvious that the trichotomies are ordered (or orderable) in a Peircean

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:48 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Benjamin Udell wrote: Jean-Marc, list, I don't even agree in the end with Peirce's classification but it's pretty obvious that whether one partially or totally

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Benjamin Udell wrote: Jean-Marc, I spoke of the three trichotomies, not the five or six or ten. If you don't address what's said, why do you bother sending posts to a place like peirce-l? If you do not address this structure, specifically, the 1st trichotomy pertains to the sign's own

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 2:19 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Benjamin Udell wrote: Jean-Marc, I spoke of the three trichotomies, not the five or six or ten. If you don't address what's said, why do you bother sending posts

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: Benjamin Udell wrote: Jean-Marc, I spoke of the three trichotomies, not the five or six or ten. If you don't address what's said, why do you bother sending posts to a place like peirce-l? If you do not address this structure, specifically, the 1st trichotomy

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Joseph Ransdell
Ransdell - Original Message - From: Jean-Marc Orliaguet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:48 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Benjamin Udell wrote: Jean-Marc, list, I don't even agree

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Benjamin Udell
my typos. I meant,"In that case (3,2) would be a (2) concretive (3) legisign and (2,2) would be a (2) concretive (2) sinsign,..."- Best, Ben Udell - Original Message - From: "Joseph Ransdell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Peirce Discussion Forum" peirce-l

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-21 Thread Joseph Ransdell
: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Jean-Marc: In reading Joe's response to you, I am reminded that you still haven't taken a stand on the three main trichotomies and their categorial correlations. If you do in fact understand the correlations, you may feel

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-20 Thread Bernard Morand
Jean-Marc Orliaguet wrote: the classification is obtained in a deductive the way, but the sequence order is arbitrary. let us say I want to classify a group of people according to 2 divisions: - men / women (1st division) - under age / adult (2nd division) that's 4 classes, OK? if I

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-20 Thread Joseph Ransdell
J-MO = Jean-Marc Orliaguet JR = Joseph Ransdell J-M: Also note that the various trichotomies are not ordered. It is purely a convention to call a trichotomy the first, second, or third trichotomy, etc. So deducing an ordering of the classes from that information only, as it has been done many

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-20 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Joseph Ransdell wrote: J-MO = Jean-Marc Orliaguet JR = Joseph Ransdell J-M: Also note that the various trichotomies are not ordered. It is purely a convention to call a trichotomy the first, second, or third trichotomy, etc. So deducing an ordering of the classes from that information only,

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-19 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Benjamin Udell wrote: Gary, Joe, list, I downloaded the chapter from Merkle's dissertation last night and it downloaded quite quickly compared to the daytime when the Internet is busier. What graphics! Very little in the way of my shadings, very much in the way of exactness and complexity.

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-19 Thread Joseph Ransdell
Jean-Marc says: For the record, it must be added that a lot of the information found in this very exhaustive piece of work has readily been available to researchers since the 80s and before, including the work done by Robert Marty on lattices (see the chapter on 'partially ordered sets' for an

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-18 Thread Joseph Ransdell
: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 1:45 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Looking at all three triangles, I get to feeling that it's unlikely that Pierce, having included no numbers

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
t;4" seems pretty sure. Best, Ben Udell - Original Message - From: "Joseph Ransdell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Peirce Discussion Forum" peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 9:46 AM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Ben and

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-18 Thread Benjamin Udell
looked mainly at the graphics. - Original Message - From: Gary Richmond To: Peirce Discussion Forum Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 6:01 PMSubject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Ben, Joe, list, I would highly recommend for those interested in further exploring

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
Image came through beautifully! Look carefully at the MS799.2 triangle of boxes and you can that the numbers are change from an earlier set of numbers. I originally thought that the little earlier numeral 8 was an extra numeral 3 CURRENT: 1 ~ 5 ~ 8 ~ 10 ~ 2 ~ 6 ~ 9 ~~ 3 ~ 7 ~~~ 4 EARLIER:

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Jean-Marc Orliaguet
Joseph Ransdell wrote: [image here] On the high-res picture it is clear that the annotations were added afterwards. Compare the line style of the figures and letters (1, 2, 3, ... B) with Peirce's thicker more irregular feather pen's style. The handwriting is differently too compared with

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Benjamin Udell
work, Joe! Thanks for these images of Peirce's own writing. Best, Ben - Original Message - From: Benjamin Udell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Peirce Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:01 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Image

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Steven Ericsson Zenith
Jean-Marc, The reference is to the ink color - the brown colored text indicated in two ways - the rest is in red ink. The note maker appears to be identifying that Peirce used two colors of ink. The Brown ink calls out: 1. Rhematic, Icon 2. Rhematic, 3/8. 4. Indexical 5. Rhematic 6.

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen
@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 1:14 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Ok..so...are these actual original notes of Peirce to be found at Harvard? And can they be reviewed by scholars? If so I would be interested to go there maybe some time and review it. Better

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) (Correction)

2006-06-17 Thread Steven Ericsson Zenith
Sorry, on closer inspection that should read: 1. Rhematic, Icon 2. Rhematic, 3/5. Rhematic 4. Indexical 5/8. Legisign 6. 7. 8/3. 9. Legisign 10. Symbolic, Legisign 540.17 highlighs in the same locations: 1. Rhematic, Icon 2. Rhematic, 3/5. Rhematic 4. 5/8. Legisign 6. Indexical 7. 8/3. 9.

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Drs.W.T.M. Berendsen
, Wilfred -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Joseph Ransdell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zaterdag 17 juni 2006 21:33 Aan: Peirce Discussion Forum Onderwerp: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Wilfred and the list: The MS pages reproduced here are from photocopies

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Steven Ericsson Zenith
17, 2006 1:14 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Ok..so...are these actual original notes of Peirce to be found at Harvard? And can they be reviewed by scholars? If so I would be interested to go there maybe some time and review it. Better to have seen it first

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Steven Ericsson Zenith
Discussion Forum peirce-l@lyris.ttu.edu Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 2:50 PM Subject: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) I think we should ask the Bill Gates foundation for this! And also just mention the importance of this to be done wherever we can. Regarding the bill gates

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Joseph Ransdell
collection. Kind regards, Wilfred -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Joseph Ransdell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zaterdag 17 juni 2006 21:33 Aan: Peirce Discussion Forum Onderwerp: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) Wilfred and the list: The MS pages reproduced here

[peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2)

2006-06-17 Thread Steven Ericsson Zenith
see ;-). Kind regards, Wilfred -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Steven Ericsson Zenith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: zaterdag 17 juni 2006 23:36 Aan: Peirce Discussion Forum Onderwerp: [peirce-l] Re: 1st image of triangle of boxes (MS799.2) My understanding is that this would