> On Oct 28, 2015, at 9:52 AM, Stephen C. Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think the most relevant way to see the triad is that Firsts are vague > beginnings related to the opening of consciousness and consideration. Seconds > are real barriers established to require a collision. The end result, the > Third, is the area at which actualization, continuity and manifestation in > the world are launched. In terms of Peirce I think continuity might be > included at any poiint he considers what a third is.
Yes, I don’t think we can understand Peirce’s logic of vagueness in any of its areas without understanding this basic conception of firstness, secondness and thirdness. As I’ve mentioned I’m a bit skeptical of taking Peirce’s early conceptions as a way of understanding his mature views such as in the Welby letter. However it is interesting when we do so. I should add that it’s somewhat interesting reading the Timaeus here relative to Peirce’s categories. In particular there’s an interesting connection to the rise of elements in that work of Plato. There the forms and space (khora) engender the elements. It’s hard not to see some of the categories in that discussion. Although at best I suspect that might have been only an early catalyst to how Peirce rethought Kant. But the forms would be firstness, the elements secondness, while space/receptical are thirdness.
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