Jeff, lists,
Thanks for the summaries. I checked the PEP-UQAM Peirce Century
Dictionary word list and indeed they have documentation for
"sensation," "feeling," and "think". This is a handy link for people to
save:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120209081908/http://www.pep.uqam.ca/listsofwords.pep
In Definition 3 of "Feeling", Peirce also distinguishes feeling from
will, and discusses the introduction of 'feeling' as an exact term into
philosophy by Tetens. Peirce was inclined to be respectful of that sort
of thing.
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*3.* The immediate quality of what is present to consciousness in
sensation, desire, or emotion, considered apart from all activity of
thought; the pure sense-element in consciousness; in a loose sense,
any element of consciousness not recognizable as thought or will.
The word (that is, its equivalent) was introduced into philosophy as
an exact term in this sense by Tetens, a German Wolffian philosopher
of the eighteenth century. Kant modified the meaning, for the
convenience of his system, so as to restrict it in def. 4, below.
[End quote. Font size difference is in the original]
Tetens had introduced a trichotomy of understanding, feeling, and will
(in no particular significant order that I could discern when I looked
into it years ago). So the two-way distinction of feeling from both will
and understanding was there from the start. Kant's modification was to
take 'feeling' in the sense of pleasure and pain.
Kant's trichotomy was
(a) cognitive faculties,
(b) feeling of pleasure or displeasure (Kant calls this a "middle term"
between cognition and will),
(c) faculty of desire (the will).
I usually mention in this context that Kant correlated them with three
kinds, respectively, of cognition itself:
(a) understanding,
(b) judgment,
(c) reason.
Best, Ben
On 12/1/2014 12:47 PM, Jeffrey Brian Downard wrote:
Ben, Lists,
Here are paraphrases from three definitions that Peirce wrote for the
century dictionary.
Sensation (n):
1. The action, faculty, or immediate mental result of receiving a
mental impression from any affection of the bodily organism; sensitive
apprehension; corporeal feeling; any feeling; also, the elements of
feeling or immediate consciousness and of consciousness of reaction in
perception; the subjective element of perception.
2. A state of interest or of feeling; especially, a state of
excited interest or feeling.
3. That which produces sensation or excited interest or feeling:
as, the greatest sensation of the day.
Feeling (n):
1. The act of sensing or perceiving by sensation
2. A sensation
3. The immediate quality of what is present to consciousness in
sensation, desire or emotion, considered apart from all activity of
thought; the pure sense element in consciousness.
Think (v):
1. To judge; to form as a judgment or conception
2. To form a mental image of; to recollect, recall, reconsider
3. To cognize, apprehend; grasp intellectually
The contrast between feeling and thinking seems instructive.
--Jeff
Jeff Downard
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
NAU
(o) 523-8354
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