Gary, list,
GF: That’s why we can prescind Firstness from Secondness (or Thirdness), but we
can’t prescind Secondness from Firstness, because Secondness is not logically
possible without Firstness. And that’s why there must be more to the phaneron
than what we call reality, even though
Helmut, list,
HR: So, in short: Dissociation, prescission, discrimination is imagining,
supposing, representing one thing without the other.
GF: That’s a bit too short, in the case of prescission, which Peirce says is
supposing *a state of things* in which one element is present without the
Gary F., List
So, in short: Dissociation, prescission, discrimination is imagining, supposing, representing one thing without the other. But how were these two things originally combined? I guess, as we are talking about phaneroscopy / phenomenology, that the only required combination is, that
Helmut, list,
I think it’s important to discriminate between logical processes, or kinds of
argument (deduction, induction, abduction), and “kinds of separation”
(dissociation, prescission, discrimination), which are pre-logical in the sense
that no reasoning is involved, just a kind of
