John - yes, I agree with your comments.
With regard to your point 4 - that’s an excellent comment. Primarity,
Secundarity, and Tertiarity
These are much better terms for the categorical modes than Firstness,
Secondness and Thirdness. They are better descriptions of their modal nature -
a prim
Dear Robert, Edwina, and all readers of Peirce-List,
I share the concerns of Robert, Edwina, and a large number of subscribers who
rarely comment on this list. We have discussed these and related issues
before. In the early 2000s, this list was a vital source of discussion by some
of the best
Robert, John, ..
I fully agree with Robert’s outline of problems about the research of Peirce
within the ‘Peircean community’.
On the one hand, there exists within this community an almost self-isolating
group of self-defined Peircean scholars, who treat ‘outsiders’ as almost
’naive and igno
Dear John,
I appreciate the interest of all these questions, even if sometimes the
answer cannot be largely speculative, especially as regards Peirce's
intentions.
Now, as for your observation about Peirce's marginal status within the APA,
this may be somewhat related to Peirce's anti-psychologism,
