Jerry This section is, I believe,from 1868 - and there are more descriptions of the categories elsewhere., eg. 8/328 1904.
The three terms you reference - quality, relation, representation] can be understood to refer to Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness.The categories, are ‘modes of being’, or the form of the substance in which information is functioning, and are basic to the Peircean framework. And he explains them in the preceding and following paragrdaphs. But you can also see his outline in 5.41 and on-150. And 1.23; And 1.300 and on [1894] 1:277 and on…. I am not sure of your agenda re: icon, index, symbol…which are Relations between the Represetnamen and Object in the mode of Firstness, Secondness and thirdness [ but I assume you know that already]… I think my analogy of the three categorical modes of chance/freedom; current state interaction; and new habits of organization [aka Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness] ae pretty obvious within an economic process. After all- an economy operates within entrepreneurship [ Firstness] where novel ideas are generated and developed. It operates within a steady state daily life process of local interactions [Secondness] - which process takes up most of the ‘energy’ of an economic mode. And - it operates within the development of new economic modes and goods and services - which require the development of new‘habits of organization’ to produce and deliver the products. Even such a system as the use of symbolic units [ money[ went through these three categories, with the introduction of the symbol [Firstness]; and then, the common use in local interactions [ Secondness] and the legislated overseeing of the common value of these ‘bits of metal and paper’ [Thirdness]. And now -we are developing new symbols and new habits of the use of ‘money’..as a symbol of value. .. I analyze economic modes with a triad of Investment/Production/Consumption [and these can even. E understood within 3ns, 2ns, 1ns!!! Edwina > On Apr 7, 2024, at 8:45 PM, Jerry LR Chandler <jerry_lr_chand...@icloud.com> > wrote: > > Dear Edwinia, List > >> On Apr 7, 2024, at 1:09 PM, Edwina Taborsky <edwina.tabor...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> And I also am a strong supporter of Peirce’s three categories, with the >> interplay between Firstnerss [ randomnness, chance, freedom]; steady-state >> interaction [Secondness] and the development of new habits of organization [ >> Thirdness]. One can explain a capitalist economy using all three categories. >> > > Your exuberant assertions are a bit beyond my amateurish reach. > > I am curious about these theses from the perspective of CSP theory of > categories with respect to your understandings of semiosis and semantic > closures. > > In the “A New List of Categories”, CSP describes the meaning of his terms and > then asserts: > > "BEING > Quality (Reference to a Ground) > Relation (Reference to a Correlate) > Representation (Reference to an Interpretant) > SUBSTANCE > > The three intermediate conceptions may be termed accidents.” > > (The punctuation is reproduced from the Essential Peirce, Vol 1., page 6) > > I am attempting to sort through the terms in light of “icons, indices, and > symbols”. > > Can you briefly connect to an understanding of “BEING”? > Can you briefly elucidate the threads of reasoning that connect this view of > “SUBSTANCE” to the conclusions in economics? > > Yes, I know that you may find these to be “Philosophy 101” questions, but I > have been reading a bit of Metaphysics in recent months… > > Michael, your thoughts are equally welcomed. > > Cheers > > Jerry > > > > > > > > > >
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