Aw: Re: : [PEIRCE-L] Aristotle and Peirce

2018-02-13 Thread Helmut Raulien
Thank you, Jon and Edwina. I don´t understand it, except I have a hunch that he is saying: A thing´s form is unique, and its matter is not, because other things are also made of the same material. I guess I rather want to keep my concept of form and matter, which I think is more naiive: In a

Aw: Re: [PEIRCE-L] Aristotle and Peirce

2018-02-12 Thread Helmut Raulien
Dear All, I wonder why Peirce associated the categories like that. To me it rather seems like matter would be 1ns, form 2ns, and entelechy 3ns. That is because I cannot see more than one mode in matter, but 2 in form: Reason for it, and aim (telos) of it. Aristotle said, that form consists of