Sung:

I meant what I wrote:

> My conjecture is that CSP is intentionally invented these terms to infer a 
> special class of objects that intrinsically communicate, grammatically, terms 
> that implicitly contain the qualities of both being a noun and an adjective. 
> Thus each of the three terms (Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness) contains 
> in its sub-parts, roots of both.

As I stated, it is a conjecture.

Cheers

Jerry


On Sep 29, 2015, at 4:57 PM, Sungchul Ji wrote:

> Hi Jerry,
> 
> Did you mean that First, Second and Third are adjectives and Firstness, 
> Secondness and Thirdness are nouns ?
> 
> All the best.
> 
> Sung
> 
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Jerry LR Chandler <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Jerry LR Chandler <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Peirce and Practopoiesis: now I understand it better
>> Date: September 28, 2015 11:19:21 AM CDT
>> To: Danko Nikolic <[email protected]>
>> 
>> Dear Danko:
>> 
>> Would you like to consider a question?
>> 
>> After struggling with the numerous statements of Firstness, Secondness, and 
>> Thirdness for several years, I settled on one of his latest renditions 
>> because of its mathematical implications as well as biochemical 
>> interpretations, that is the version given in his private letter to Lady 
>> Welby.
>> 
>> In recent weeks, as a consequence of explorations of the meaning of identity 
>> in utterances, statements and propositions, it occurred to me that CSP 
>> proposes these terms in such a grammatical way that is extremely innovative. 
>> (Recall that CSP depended heavily on English grammar to formulate his 
>> logical propositions, such as in the medad and the trichotomy of nine nouns 
>> as a universal logical/relational argument for whatever.)
>> 
>> Presuppositions: 
>> The terms First, Second and Third are nouns.
>> The suffix term, "-ness" functions grammatically by changing nouns into 
>> adjectives.
>> 
>> Example:
>> The ball is red.
>> The red ball is (predicate)
>> The redness of the ball is (predicate)
>> 
>> My conjecture is that CSP is intentionally invented these terms to infer a 
>> special class of objects that intrinsically communicate, grammatically, 
>> terms that implicitly contain the qualities of both being a noun and an 
>> adjective. 
>> Thus each of the three terms (Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness) contains 
>> in its sub-parts, roots of both.
>> 
>> Note that this usage of "x-ness" is consistent with his chemical training 
>> and modern chemical logic. 
>> The formal logic of two atoms combining to form a molecule is of this type 
>> of usage.
>> 
>> Is this consistent or non-consistent with your meanings?
>> 
>> I presume that you will find this to be a strange question. I pose it to 
>> provide you an opportunity to explore the foundation of CSP logic in the 
>> hard sciences, which is direct and wide-ranging and not at all amazing as 
>> you suggest.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Jerry
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 28, 2015, at 3:57 AM, Danko Nikolic wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> When I presented the list with the theory of practopoiesis and suggested 
>>> that the three traverses can account for abductive reasoning, I also 
>>> received a number of questions regarding Peirce's work to which I had no 
>>> answers. The reason I had no answers was that I did not know much about 
>>> work of Peirce other than abductive reasoning.
>>> 
>>> Now, I would like to share with you that I have made a bit of a step 
>>> forward. One of the questions (or suggestions) that I received was that 
>>> perhaps the three levels of organization that I proposed (three traverses) 
>>> correspond to the three Peirce's categories: Firstness, Secondness, and 
>>> Thirdness.
>>> 
>>> Meanwhile, I have learned more about Peirce and I think that the answer is: 
>>> No. The three levels of organization do not correspond to these three 
>>> aspects of our consciousness. Actually, it seems that all three categories 
>>> should be assigned to the same level of organization, and this would be the 
>>> middle level, which I named anapoiesis.
>>> 
>>>  I always thought that this middle level is the most interesting part of 
>>> the theory, as it can produce a fascinatingly rich dynamics to explain 
>>> consciousness. Now, it seems to me that 1ness, 2ness, and 3ness correspond 
>>> very nicely to different aspects of its dynamics. So, it appears that this 
>>> aspect of Pierce's work will be extremely helpful in the future in 
>>> describing different aspects of adaptive processes in tri-traversal systems.
>>> 
>>> Peirce's philosophy (at least a part of it) may even get some sort of a 
>>> foundation in hard sciences, which would be amazing.
>>> 
>>> I hope that someone finds this useful.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> 
>>> Danko
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
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