Gary F, List, GF: "Peirce’s three Categories are recognizable in his 1867 paper, but there is a big difference between “the manifold of sense” and the *phaneron*, and we can’t comprehend phaneroscopy without seeing the difference."
GR: Thank you for emphasizing that significant difference, one which *makes a difference* in how we look at the development of Peirce's phenomenology. Best, Gary R “Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final” ― Rainer Maria Rilke *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 1:48 PM <g...@gnusystems.ca> wrote: > List, > > Part 2 of the slide presentation introduces Peirce’s “universal > categories” with an outline of the 1867 paper in which he first presented > his “New List of Categories.” This was decades before he started referring > to them as Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, and 35 years before he > started referring to his method of discerning them as “phenomenology.” > Personally I find the “New List” paper to be one of the most difficult > Peirce ever wrote, and I think André does a good job of reducing its > argument to one slide. But I must point out that Peirce’s categorial > theory, and his phenomenological method, went through several changes > between 1867 and the 1903-4 writings which contain his most clear and > cogent statements about them and about his method. For now I’ll just > mention one of those changes. > > The “New List” paper was explicitly “based upon the theory already > established, that the function of conceptions is to reduce the manifold of > sensuous impressions to unity and that the validity of a conception > consists in the impossibility of reducing the content of consciousness to > unity without the introduction of it.” This was a Kantian theory of > cognition which Peirce no longer accepted in 1886, when he wrote the > following: > > [[ Kant talks inaccurately of the manifold of sense; in fact the first > impression has no parts, any more than it has unity or wholeness; yet it > may be allowed to be potentially a manifold, if we say that all that the > intellect evolves from it lies involved within it. The pure First is > essentially vivid, present, and conscious; for that which is dead or remote > is as it is only for him who may perceive it. What the world was to Adam on > the day he opened his eyes to it, before he had drawn any distinctions, or > had become conscious of his own existence,—that is first. ]] (W5:299) > > Peirce’s three Categories are recognizable in his 1867 paper, but there is > a big difference between “the manifold of sense” and the *phaneron*, and > we can’t comprehend phaneroscopy without seeing the difference. I hope the > slow read will lead us toward that goal. > > Gary f. > > *From:* peirce-l-requ...@list.iupui.edu <peirce-l-requ...@list.iupui.edu> *On > Behalf Of *g...@gnusystems.ca > *Sent:* 21-Jun-21 17:34 > > Continuing our slow read, here is the next slide of André De Tienne’s > slideshow posted on the Peirce Edition Project (iupui.edu) > <https://peirce.iupui.edu/publications.html#presentations> site. > > > > Gary f. > > > > > > Text: > > Necessary assumption for the purposes of this talk: > > You are already minimally familiar with Peirce's three categories of > firstness, secondness, and thirdness. > > • 1864-1867: Initial search for a new conception of the logical role a set > of genuinely universal categories should fulfill > > - Discovery that this set is small and *gradually ordered*. > > - Each category is a distinct and indispensable *stage* in the process of > turning a cloudy *manifold* into a clarified unifying intellection. > > - Each category is found *inductively* and confirmed through the test of > *PRESCISSION*, a powerful kind of heuristic abstraction. > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > ► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . > ► To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message NOT to PEIRCE-L but to > l...@list.iupui.edu with UNSUBSCRIBE PEIRCE-L in the SUBJECT LINE of the > message and nothing in the body. More at > https://list.iupui.edu/sympa/help/user-signoff.html . > ► PEIRCE-L is owned by THE PEIRCE GROUP; moderated by Gary Richmond; and > co-managed by him and Ben Udell. >
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