Diane, Between any 2 sets of 3 there are 3! (count 'em, 6) ways of forming a 1-to-1 correspondence, and there may be reason for considering the sense of each 1. When it comes to Peirce's categories, which are best understood as the dimensions of relations, roughly speaking, what monadic, dyadic, triadic relations, respectively, have in common, it is also good to recall that Peirce often stressed the order: 1st, 2nd, 3rd = First, Last, Middle.
| By the third, I mean the medium or connecting | bond between the absolute first and last. | The beginning is first, the end second, | the middle third. | | Peirce, CP 1.337 Regards, Jon Diane Stephens wrote:
In the book *Semiotics I* by Donald Thomas, he includes a chart which shows concepts associated with firsts, seconds and thirds. For example, a first is *quality*, a second is *fact* and a third is *law.* I understand all but second as past as in: First - *present * Second - *past * Third - *future * I would appreciate some help. Thanks.
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