> On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:34 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that another interesting research project might be to sort out how > and when and where Peirce uses first, second, and third to refer to his > categories rather than these words merely referring to 'entities'. >
Just to note, the quote in question is from the letter to Lady Welby and thus late. So in the quote I think he uses them to refer to terms in a trichotomy rather than entities as such. As you later note in the Harvard Lectures he also is using third rather than thirdness. Although that might just be for clarity given his audience likely wasn’t familiar with his terminology. That said I would be interested in the evolution of the terminology for the reasons you note.
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