Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-17 Thread John F Sowa
On 12/17/2018 4:30 PM, g...@gnusystems.ca wrote: Possibly what I’m saying here is not much different from what you meant, Yes. We mostly agree on the issues with some variations in terminology. When I said "The categories of 1ns, 2ns, 3ns are ways of classifying experiences in the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-17 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
as he says on the > same page; but I think it is clarified by Peirce’s statement (quoted above) > that “a sign, in order to fulfill its office, to actualize its potency, > must be compelled by its object” and without this compulsion, “the object > is not the representamen's object.” The element of com

RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-17 Thread gnox
@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic Gary F, Edwina, Jon AS GF > My suggestion is that Peirce’s three categories or “elements” can be > regarded as elements of Aristotelian Form: Quality is the Firstness of > Form, Actuality is the Secondness of Form, a

RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-17 Thread gnox
its object” and without this compulsion, “the object is not the representamen's object.” The element of compulsion, i.e. secondness, has to be genuine in order for Thirdness to be genuine. Gary f. From: Jon Alan Schmidt Sent: 16-Dec-18 16:27 To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-16 Thread John F Sowa
Gary F, Edwina, Jon AS GF My suggestion is that Peirce’s three categories or “elements” can be regarded as elements of Aristotelian Form: Quality is the Firstness of Form, Actuality is the Secondness of Form, and Growth is the Thirdness of Form. As for Aristotelian Matter, it is simply

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-16 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary F., List: GF: My suggestion is that Peirce’s three categories or “elements” can be regarded as elements of Aristotelian Form: Quality is the Firstness of Form, Actuality is the Secondness of Form, and Growth is the Thirdness of Form. If Aristotelian Form is a logical and/or metaphysical

Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-16 Thread Edwina Taborsky
discussion offlist in which you raised some other important points, but I’ll have to leave that to you, as I’m being called away right now … Gary f. From: Jon Alan Schmidt Sent: 15-Dec-18 19:36 To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-16 Thread gnox
, but I’ll have to leave that to you, as I’m being called away right now … Gary f. From: Jon Alan Schmidt Sent: 15-Dec-18 19:36 To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic Jerry C., List: In this context, I understand "sufficiently complete&qu

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Jerry C., List: In this context, I understand "sufficiently complete" in two ways. 1. A pure Icon would signify something without denoting anything, while a pure Index would denote something without signifying anything (cf. EP 2:307; 1904). Only a Symbol is *sufficiently complete* to

Re: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-15 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Helmut, List: HR: Is "Phaneroscopy, Normative Science, Metaphysics " itself a triad, in the very sequence like you wrote them: 1ns, 2ns, 3ns? Yes, as Peirce himself explicitly affirmed. CSP: So then the division of Philosophy into these three grand departments ... turns out to be a division

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-15 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Jon: > On Dec 14, 2018, at 5:05 PM, Jon Alan Schmidt > wrote: (From EP 2:203-204) > > In addition however to denoting objects, every sign sufficiently complete > signifies characters, or qualities But what is the meaning of this phrase? In particular, when can we distinguish between a sign

Aw: Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-15 Thread Helmut Raulien
Jon, list,   I am impressed, I never have seen the categories so accurately assigned, as you did:   "experience--quality, reaction, and mediation in Phaneroscopy; feeling, action, and thought in Normative Science; possibility, actuality, and conditional necessity in Metaphysics."   Now: Is 

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Gary R, list Again - we'll just have to disagree. 1] In my view, something that is occurring with the actions of 'chance, spontaneity and freedom' is not amenable to measurement. As such, the experience

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Gary Richmond
Edwina, Jon, list, Edwina wrote: 1] With regard to 1ns being understood as 'quality' - well, 'quality', as a subjective rather than objective [and therefore, not amenable to empirical measurement] - fits in well with chance, spontaneity and freedom - all of which are subjective and not amenable

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: 1ns as quality has nothing whatsoever to do with subjectivity or non-measurability. It pertains to characters such as color (e.g., redness) and shape (e.g., roundness) that are real possibilities in themselves, but only exist where embodied. In the passages that I have

[PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }Jon, list We will, as usual, continue to disagree. 1] With regard to 1ns being understood as 'quality' - well, 'quality', as a subjective rather than objective [and therefore, not amenable to empirical

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
ask, what is the nature of the action of the sign upon the > quasi-mind when it determines the interpretant? The answer will be better > understood if it is made disjunctive rather than general. ]] > > Gary f. > > > > *From:* Jon Alan Schmidt > *Sent:* 13-Dec-18

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Edwina, List: As I have acknowledged before, there are passages in Peirce's writings where he uses the term "form" in a way more consistent with 3ns than 1ns, but the ones that I have quoted recently are not among them. In my view, it is incontrovertible that when he discusses Form, Matter, and

Aw: RE: RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Helmut Raulien
t the temporal order of events. Gary f.   From: Helmut Raulien Sent: 14-Dec-18 10:26 To: h.raul...@gmx.de Cc: g...@gnusystems.ca; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic       Supplement: Meaning, that we see, hear, etc. very much about sex

RE: RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread gnox
of events. Gary f. From: Helmut Raulien Sent: 14-Dec-18 10:26 To: h.raul...@gmx.de Cc: g...@gnusystems.ca; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic Supplement: Meaning, that we see, hear, etc. very much about sex (e.g. in literature, music

Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Helmut Raulien
ually said that “form” was first and “matter” second?   Gary f.   From: Helmut Raulien Sent: 13-Dec-18 13:19 Subject: Aw: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic     Supplement: Or was he just underfucked? List, I think the question, whether matter is 1ns, and form 2ns, or the

RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread gnox
the interpretant? The answer will be better understood if it is made disjunctive rather than general. ]] Gary f. From: Jon Alan Schmidt Sent: 13-Dec-18 23:01 To: peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic Gary F., Helmut, List: GF: ... do you know of any text

Aw: RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Helmut Raulien
consistent?) with Aristotle’s matter/form distinction as given in De Anima. You imply that Peirce held the opposite view; but do you know of any text where Peirce actually said that “form” was first and “matter” second?   Gary f.   From: Helmut Raulien Sent: 13-Dec-18 13:19 Subject: Aw:

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Stephen Curtiss Rose
The notion that either form or matter mean a hill of beans in terms of triadic thinking assumes we know the nature of reality. Insofar as we know what came first ir is first it is shrouded in mystery but it is most certainly not all chance and formless. I do not know what Peirce had in mind and I

Re: Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-14 Thread Edwina Taborsky
BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px; }List: I disagree that this section states that Form is associated with 1ns and Matter with 2ns. After all, that would suggest that Form is an action of chance, spontaneity and freedom. I consider that Form,

Re: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-13 Thread Jon Alan Schmidt
Gary F., Helmut, List: GF: ... do you know of any text where Peirce actually said that “form” was first and “matter” second? I offered several representative quotes in a previous post to demonstrate that Peirce consistently associated Form with 1ns and Matter with 2ns, rather than the other

RE: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-13 Thread gnox
Sent: 13-Dec-18 13:19 Subject: Aw: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic Supplement: Or was he just underfucked? List, I think the question, whether matter is 1ns, and form 2ns, or the other way round, does not have to do with sex. This discussion is underfucked. Form requires matter

Aw: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-13 Thread Helmut Raulien
    Supplement: Or was he just underfucked? List, I think the question, whether matter is 1ns, and form 2ns, or the other way round, does not have to do with sex. This discussion is underfucked. Form requires matter, because a form must consist of something. Matter does not require form,

Aw: [PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-13 Thread Helmut Raulien
List, I think the question, whether matter is 1ns, and form 2ns, or the other way round, does not have to do with sex. This discussion is underfucked. Form requires matter, because a form must consist of something. Matter does not require form, matter may be amorphous. So matter is first, and

[PEIRCE-L] the sexuality of methodeutic

2018-12-13 Thread gnox
Some further thoughts (from my blog, http://gnusystems.ca/wp/2018/12/sex-life-and-logic/ ) on the Aristotelian matter/form distinction and the Peircean concept of “Growth”: Merleau-Ponty refers to perception as the ‘coition, so to speak, of our body with things’. The phrase ‘so to speak’ marks