Hi Gary... I do not see 3 as the end of the process any more than I see today as the end of time. If triadic thinking is truly different in sum from nominalistic and binary thinking it is because of 2 -- the index is the crucial modifying or standardizing or conditional element. The third may as you say not be the end. But it is most certainly not merely something that goes back into the index - 2. It represents an effort at continuity -- it is continuity. It is destined to be fallible of course. Nothing is final. It's hypothetical until tested. But the intention of all thought is to achieve something. To solve something. To create a habit or refine it or alter it. I cannot believe that in all of Peirce there is an explicit denial of the notion that some practical conclusion is the aim of thought. How else is triadic to be understood? Most certainly not as a circle. That is why eternal return is an alluring but ultimately wrong. Or at least premature like amor fati.
amazon.com/author/stephenrose On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 10:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > ----------------------------- > 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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