Clark: To clarify, I did not mean to imply that I was stating *Peirce's* analysis of John 1:1; again, as far as I know, he never quoted or directly commented on it. That was just my own first pass at parsing it in terms of the three Categories.
Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Clark Goble <cl...@lextek.com> wrote: > On Nov 2, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt <jonalanschm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > At first glance, it seems to me that mapping John 1:1 to Peirce's > Categories gives us something like, "In the beginning was the Word > [Thirdness], and the Word was with God [Secondness], and the Word was God > [Firstness]." > > I’ll just confess my ignorance here since there are different ways to read > that and I couldn’t find anything on how Peirce did. His beliefs are > idiocyncratic enough I’m loath to simply impose on him traditional views of > the Trinity or the Logos. After all this was also a point where Eckhart and > Duns Scotus differed as well. (Is the Father Being or Intellect among other > matters) > > Making things more complicated are the various ways “logos” can be used. > Scotus often uses it as reason. > > Unfortunately I don’t have my CP handy so I’ll see if I have time to look > this up at home. (I still need to find that Ransdell paper on love too — > although I’m coming to think I conflated it in my memory with a paper of > Michael Ventimiglia, “Reclaiming the Peircean Cosmology: Existential > Abduction and the Growth of Self") >
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