Dear Gene, list, You're quite right! I forgot about that. Occasionally I forget where I'm not quite on the same page with Peirce.
In Peirce's technical sense in "Questions on Reality" (1868) http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/logic/ms148.htm, a general individual is in one place at a time, and not confined to one point and date. You could think of a rock that way. That's how I think of people, too, with what some call "genidentity," identity through time. But Peirce goes farther, for example in his "Immortality in the Light of Synechism" (1887) http://books.google.com/books?id=V9wPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69 and CP 6.548-56. He held there that there is also social consciousness: one's spirit really does live on in others; and there is also spiritual consciousness, which we confuse with other things, and in which one is constituted as an eternal truth "embodied by the universe as a whole": that eternal truth "as an archetypal idea can never fail; and in the world to come is destined to a special spiritual embodiment." (quoting a little of myself from Wikipedia). Best, Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: Eugene Halton To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [peirce-l] Slow Read: "Teleology and the Autonomy of the Semiosis Process" Ben Udell: "Regarding Peirce on singular versus individual, the distinction that he made (at least sometimes) was that which is in one place and time (a singular), and that which is in only one place at a time (an individual). In that sense, we are individuals but not singulars. But the singulars that Peirce in later years discusses in regard to perceptual judgments are usually that which he earlier called general individuals - you, me, a horse, etc." Dear Ben, You say we are individuals in Peirce's technical sense, in one place at a time. But then how can you and I be here, in these signs, when we are also there, reading and typing them? What about: "A word may be in several places at once, six six, because its essence is spiritual; and I believe that a man is no whit inferior to the word in this respect." (Peirce. 7.591, W 1:498, 1866) Gene From: C S Peirce discussion list [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Benjamin Udell Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 7:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [peirce-l] Slow Read: "Teleology and the Autonomy of the Semiosis Process" Peter, Stefan, Gary R., list, That's a good point, Peter, about falsification's pertaining to general/universal judgments. Even a perceptual judgment that there --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to [email protected] with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected]
