Jeff, List,
In response to the request at the beginning of your post, Jeff: I have collected a number of passages in which Peirce uses some form of the word "determine"; I haven't made a list of them, but simply copied some of the interesting ones from my text/html collection of Peirce's texts (which I've sorted into a chronological order) into a separate text file. Many of them I've incorporated into more or less recent posts. Here I'll just paste in one of the less well-known passages which I haven't quoted before (because I don't have anything in particular to say about it, except that I found it helpful in rendering the concept less vague in my own mind - i.e. it helps me determine what Peirce meant by "determine): [[[ It will be observed that an Icon represents whatever object it may represent by virtue of its own quality, and determines whatever interpretant it may determine by virtue of its own quality; while an Index represents its object by virtue of a real relation with it and determines whatever interpretant may be in a real relation with it and the object. A Symbol differs from both of those types of sign inasmuch as it represents its object solely by virtue of being represented to represent it by the interpretant which it determines. But how can this be, it will be asked. How can a thing become a sign of an object to an interpretant sign which itself determines by virtue of the recognition of that, its own creation? The reply to this question is best given in the form of an illustration. Certain facts are stated in such a way as to convince a person of the reality of a certain truth, that is, the argumentation is designed to determine in his mind a representation of that truth. Now if in the acknowledgement of that truth he recognizes that that argumentation is a sign of that truth then it has really functioned as a sign of it; but if he does not then the argumentation fails to be for him a sign of that truth. Next consider, not an argumentation or statement, expressly designed to lead to a given belief, but a mere statement of fact, a true proposition. That proposition may not be admitted by anybody. In that case, it does not function as a sign to anybody. But to whomsoever shall believe it, it will be a sign that, under certain circumstances, with a view to certain ends, certain lines of conduct are to be embraced, and the interpretant of it will be a rule of conduct to that effect established, not in consciousness necessarily, but in the nature and soul of the believer. ]]] - MS 599, c.1902 Gary f. From: Jeffrey Brian Downard [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 5-May-16 21:08 To: 'Peirce List' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Re: Peirce on the Definition of Determination Hi Gary F, List, First, you offered to share a list of passages in which Peirce uses or describes the concept of determines. I'd like to see that list. .
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