Signs are sufficiently diffuse and vague as to have an almost spectral entity. I see consciousness as the willed condition in which signs become visible or perceptible and thought as a description of the entire consideration of which this is the start. The next thing that happens is naming. sign >name then 2 and 3. So I doubt I fit neatly into the characterization implied by psychologism. Thought and consciousness and will and impulse are all to utilities or capabilities within Reality. What is not conscious is in my view mindless. Animals have consciousness if they see signs and can name them. There needs to be some way to make signs amenable to the mind.
*@stephencrose <https://twitter.com/stephencrose>* On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt <stj...@hum.ku.dk> wrote: > Dear S, lists, > Some thought is indeed conscious but we have good reasons to suspect that > even large swathes of human thought are not conscious. So, like Peirce, I > hesitate to make consciousness part of the definition of thought, also > because we have as yet no means to ascertain which animal thoughts are > accompanied by consciousness. > F > > Den 25/09/2014 kl. 15.51 skrev "Stephen C. Rose" <stever...@gmail.com> > : > > I see thought as a conscious process that takes a sign and names it and > submits it to an index and eventuates in an expression or action. I suppose > it amounts to a chain of propositions but it is conscious and it impacts > daily living. > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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