John D., lists,
Thanks for quoting it. I hadn't remembered this distinction between
feeling and sensation. Earlier in the same manuscript (titled "Forms of
Consciousness" by the editors, who guess it to be from about 1900), in
CP 7.543, Peirce also says that sensation involves both feeling and the
consciousness of one's being compelled, and that a sensation is an event
which has to happen at a particular moment. He points out that to
remember or imagine a sensation is not the same as actually having that
sensation, and says that, on the other hand, to think, remember, imagine
a feeling at all is to feel it.
Best, Ben
On 12/2/2014 12:53 PM, Deely, John N. wrote:
Here is the undated CP 7.551 passage:
Undated CP 7.551. There are no other forms of consciousness except the
three that have been mentioned, Feeling, Altersense, and Medisense.
They form a sort of system. Feeling is the momentarily present
contents of consciousness taken in its pristine simplicity, apart from
anything else. It is consciousness in its first state, and might be
called primisense. Altersense is the consciousness of a directly
present other or second, withstanding us. Medisense is the
consciousness of a thirdness, or medium between primisense and
altersense, leading from the former to the latter. It is the
consciousness of a process of bringing to mind. Feeling, or primisense
, is the consciousness of firstness; altersense is consciousness of
otherness or secondness; medisense is the consciousness of means or
thirdness. Of primisense there is but one fundamental mode. Altersense
has two modes, Sensation and Will. Medisense has three modes,
Abstraction, Suggestion, Association.†16 (see further 7.276–278).
*From:* Helmut Raulien
*Sent:* Tuesday, December 02, 2014 11:39
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*Subject:* [biosemiotics:7647] Re: Peirce categories
Dear Edwina, List,
I think, a good text is CP.7551. I only found it in google books, and
couldnt copy it. Catchwords are "primisense, altersense, medisense".
Best, Helmut
Edwina Taborsky wrote:
Ben - just a minor quibble. With Firstness, you don't get a 'feeling
of red'; you get a Feeling. To identify that feeling, even as 'red',
moves you into Secondness and Thirdness.
Edwina
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