Stephen,
This brings out one difference between your triadic thinking and Peirce’s. For him, Thirdness is not the end of the process but the means (as he says in 3.10) or mediation between First and Second, sometimes pictured as the beginning and end of a line (or linear process). That’s why he sometimes even defines Thirdness as “that whose being consists in its bringing about a secondness” (EP2:267). Gary f. From: Stephen C. Rose [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 2-Jan-18 08:12 To: Gary Fuhrman <[email protected]> Cc: Peirce List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Lowell Lecture 3.10 I think there are myriad ways that things move from 1 to 2 to 3 -- each thought process is one of trillions. Sometimes the primal 1 wrestles with brutal 2 and the willed decision is a no -- all in seconds. Other times the process might emerge as a 1 topic and be amplified by 2 an index and then emerge as 3 a creative solution -- or at least as something to try. Triadic thinking insists that between 1 and 3 there is an index 2 of some sort, enabling a process of refinement, enlargement, or criticism. amazon.com/author/stephenrose <http://amazon.com/author/stephenrose>
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