[PEIRCE-L] Peirce and category theory

2021-06-24 Thread John F. Sowa
The attached file, diag.txt, contains a review of the book Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy, which contains a chapter about Peirce.  Since the book is written for non-mathematicians, it uses diagrams to explain the ideas, rather than the more complex terminology of

Re: [PEIRCE-L] André De Tienne: Slow Read slide 6

2021-06-24 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary F., List: I have been wondering exactly "what André means by 'gradually ordered'" ever since you posted that slide. Peirce seems to use "gradual" as a rough synonym for "continuous" when talking about change or variation, such as in NEM 2:248 (1895), CP 7.283-284 (c. 1895), and NEM

RE: [PEIRCE-L] André De Tienne: Slow Read slide 6

2021-06-24 Thread gnox
List, I think my previous post on this slide may have overemphasized the difference between Peirce’s 1867 view of the categories and his later “phaneroscopic” view of them, and I’d like to correct that before we leave slide 6, which refers to Peirce’s early discovery that the “set of genuinely