Frederik, lists, My questioning you on this came from my having just written that Peirce makes a categorially involutional argument in "The Logic of Mathematics."
And I had already mentioned that it is certainly possible to focus on (abstract) 1ns. Your adding prescissive bracketing of 2ns and 3nd is, of course, the way in which we do this. So, it would appear that we are in complete agreement (I would have been surprised if we weren't). Best, Gary [image: Gary Richmond] *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690* On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Frederik Stjernfelt <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Gary, lists - > But my argument was not at all to deny firstness. It was just to give the > argument that no category ever appears isolated. > And that there is a hiearchy, paradoxically beginning with Thirdness > because it involves 2 and 1 so that focusing on Firsts involves the > prescissive bracketing of 2 and 3. > Best > F > > Den 27/04/2015 kl. 01.37 skrev Gary Richmond <[email protected]> > : > > Frederik, lists, > > You write, "But pain involves secondness." No doubt. I had already > written there is "certainly secondness involved" in my unexpected sudden > eye pain example. > > But, unless one wants to deny the reality of 1ns, as apparently John > would, then one must admit that pain--and, as Peirce says, each unique > instance of pain--has its own distinct character, it's unique quality > (firstness). > > And are the three phenomenoloogical categories *ever* found apart from > the others in reality? Peirce says no (although one may predominate). > > So to say that pain *involves *secondess doesn't deny firstness at all > as I see it. > > Best, > > Gary > > >
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