Helmut, I think what you say here is just about right: HR: The truth works as a motive, a quest for it, although it is not yet achieved. People (animals, organisms, molecules?) have a feeling, intuition, instinct, internalised law or axiom, that everything has or would have a true representation. This final interpretant, though not realised, does nevertheless do its work for the sign this way here and now.
GF: Peirce says ‘Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question’ (EP2:240). So that belief is a motivation for asking the question, as you say. (I doubt, however, that molecules have any such motivations; I think it takes a self-organizing system to have motivations in that psychological sense.) Gary f. From: Helmut Raulien <[email protected]> Sent: 18-May-20 14:24 To: [email protected] Cc: 'Peirce-L' <[email protected]> Subject: Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] To put an end to the false debate on the classification of signs List do I understand it correctly, that the paradoxon here is, that the final interpretant is the first element in logical order, but the last in temporal order? In this case I would propose a solution attempt like this: The truth works as a motive, a quest for it, although it is not yet achieved. People (animals, organisms, molecules?) have a feeling, intuition, instinct, internalised law or axiom, that everything has or would have a true representation. This final interpretant, though not realised, does nevertheless do its work for the sign this way here and now. Best, Helmut
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