Everything does move past the individual to social or community or whatever name we give the living. Because triadic thinking inevitably moves to expression and action there is no way the social element cannot be present in some form.
amazon.com/author/stephenrose On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Edwina Taborsky <[email protected]> wrote: > > John, list, > > I acknowledge your point, but even that rock's reaction involves > Thirdness; i.e., the material composition of the rock that defines how it > will react to an external force. > > I think my possibly irrelevant point was/is that Thirdness necessarily > involves the community - either past or present community - but, something > beyond the informational isolation of the individual. > > I agree with your comment that relativism "seems to be a more intellectual > process (reasoning) > than an immediate feeling or reaction. " What I'm trying to include is its > closure to information. > > Edwina > > > > > On Sat 30/09/17 12:33 PM , John F Sowa [email protected] sent: > > On 9/30/2017 10:54 AM, Edwina Taborsky wrote: > > Firstness and Secondness [Feeling and Reaction] exist within > > the individual and, if the process of forming conclusions is > > confined to these two modes - it is indeed a relativist opinion. > > > > It is only within the action of Thirdness that the 'controlled action' > > that is a reasoned process can develop. > > In any perception, there is always an open-ended range of possible > interpretations. And the interpretations (first, second, or third) > always depend on the experience and nature of the interpreter. > > A cat, dog, or human, for example, may enjoy certain kinds of music. > The most advanced kind of enjoyment, by a professional musician, > would depend on "controlled reasoning", but even the professionals > disagree -- and their reasons can span a wide range of options. > > For Secondness, a rock will react to a sharp blow in a precisely > controlled manner. But humans may react in complex ways that > depend on their background knowledge and reasoning. > > Relativism seems to be a more intellectual process (reasoning) > than an immediate feeling or reaction. > > John > > PS (cat anecdote): I heard a story about two cats that were > comfortably content while the radio played Bach and Mozart. > But when a dissonant 20th-c. composition came up, they left > the room. Their human also switched the station. Which ones > were feeling, reacting, or reasoning? > > > > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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