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Thanks Jim.
What do you conclude is Peirce's position in NLC?
With respect,
Steven
Dear Steven,
As I think about it and am coming to better
appreciate your question I'm inclined to share your conclusion that unifying
the sensuous impression is best understood as a kind of differentiation which
occurs within the context of the meaningfulness which we, as signs,
bring to all experience. And this, for the moment, is my current
take on what Peirce means in NLC.
I'd guess that the particular meaning or usage of
"unifying" that Peirce employs in this passage may have been taken from a
similar usage by Kant in his account of how his categories functioned.
Unifying in the sense of bringing under the control of a single concept.
And I suppose further (as implied by your question) that unification in
general can be achieved among diverse elements under the principle
of either sharing a common difference with their context or by sharing
something in common independent of their context. But all this is very
tentative in my mind as you have pointed out an issue that I had not
previously appreciated and I'm just beginning to grapple with its
implications.
Best wishes,
Jim
On Sep 7, 2006, at 6:48 AM, Jim Piat wrote:
... I just reread this
and your exchange with Patrick, and realize that part of your
concern may be whether one's conception of a particular
event is differentiated out of the totality of one's experience or if the
totality of one's experience is built out of the integration of discrete
events. Viewed in this was I'd say the former. We
differentiate. We begin by swiming in a continuum of
meaning from which we gradually discern and differentiate various
nuances. When I say "we begin by swiming ..." what I mean is
that at some point we awaken biologically and socially to meaning and it
is this awaking that I take as the beginning. Perhaps there is a
mode of being beyond what we call meaning -- but what that could possibly
mean is inconceivable to me.
Best
wishes,
Jim
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