John, You first wrote: "the experience of firstness. I maintained there is no such thing in itself (except as an abstraction)."
But now you say that you agree with Frederik's analysis. But I do not think that Frederik is saying that there is "so such thing in itself" as an "experience of firstness," but that we must prescissively abstract it out if we are to "focus" on in certain analyses. Frederik has just written that he does not deny 1ns. You however seem to to saying that it is merely "an abstraction," has its being as an abstraction, has no other reality than that. Again, this does not appear to me to be how Frederik sees it (he'll correct me, I'm sure, if I'm wrong). All he seems to be saying is that for some analytical purposes it is helpful to prescissively abstract 1ns from the other two categories. 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 9:13 AM, John Collier <[email protected]> wrote: > Agreed, Frederik. I think this is really important. > > > > John > > > > *From:* Frederik Stjernfelt [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* April 26, 2015 6:41 PM > *To:* [email protected]; Peirce-L 1 > *Subject:* [PEIRCE-L] Re: [biosemiotics:8466] Re: Natural Propositions, > > > > ps - Peirce's three distinctions are subtypes of partial consideration - > > > > F > > > > Den 26/04/2015 kl. 18.37 skrev John Collier <[email protected]> > > : > > > > Gary, > > > > I would say it is an abstraction from the perceptual judgment, where > abstraction is understood as Locke's partial consideration. At least that > is the way I seem to experience things myself. Perhaps others are different. > > > > John > > >
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