Gene, thank you for that very salient comment! Do you mind if I copy it to my
blog (with attribution to you of course)?
Your point about “metaphor” is well taken; I’m using it here very broadly. Or,
if we take the narrow meaning as the baseline, my “metaphor” is actually a
synechdoche for Dewey’s “aesthetic experience.”
As for recognition, habituation is certainly one aspect of it, one side of the
coin … but I also see a recreative side in recognition (when it’s prompted by a
creative metaphor), and that’s the side I’m focusing on in this context.
Phaneroscopically, the point is that the Firstness involved in Thirdness keeps
it alive.
Gary f.
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From: Eugene Halton [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 23-Oct-15 11:44
To: Peirce List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Seeing things
Dear Gary F.,
I would add that it is not only metaphor that, “reverses the process by
unmaking a familiar distinction, revealing a richer and stranger relationship,”
as you put it. This is also the essence of aesthetic experience. Dewey termed
this “perception,” where the qualitative immediacy of the object determines the
interpretation, rather than the habits of interpretation brought to the
situation by the interpreter, which Dewey termed “recognition.” In Dewey's use
of these terms, recognition is arrested perception, where full openess to the
object is foreclosed by habituation. Fuller openness to the qualities of the
object can indeed unmake a familiar distinction to reveal a richer and perhaps
stranger relationship, such as Peirce’s example of snow in shade as actually
appearing blue.
Aesthetic experience in this sense, as a potential element in all experience,
involves an openness, a vulnerability to experience.
Gene
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