Edwina, You do not seem to understand my question. Let me repeat it from [biosemiotics:6537], which was in response to your remark that
"Secondness, after all, is a mode of organization of matter which produces morphologies interacting only within brute action and reaction. There are NO LAWS." My question was: "How can anything be organized without obeying LAWS ?" Do you think it can ? With all the best. Sung __________________________________________________ Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Rutgers University Piscataway, N.J. 08855 732-445-4701 www.conformon.net > I have said that I disagree that all three categorical modes are always > present in a triadic Sign. My examples have been taken from the ten > classes of signs provided by Peirce (2.254). Therefore, a sign with all > three relations in a mode of Firstness or Secondness does exist. > > Sung asked - how can there be anything without Form; he seems to be under > the misapprehension that Thirdness provides the Form - and I reject such > an assumption. > > First, I don't separate matter and form except intellectually. Matter > cannot exist without form. But form is not Thirdness. Thirdness is the > laws-of-habitual formation, which enables continuity of type. But matter > can certainly exist without continuity - and when it does, for example, it > can be in a mode of Firstness (a local, instantaneous formation of matter) > or Secondness (a local current-time formation of matter that exists only > in interaction with another form of matter). The laws of continuity > (Thirdness) need not have any part in these two modes of organization. > > Indeed, the reality of these two modes provides the vital potentiality for > chance, for innovation, for the development of novel biological species, > for the testing of adaptations and so on. Thirdness, or the mode of habits > and continuity, would prevent such freedoms. > > Edwina
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