Firstness
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/03/2018 Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni" I find that there are in the phaneron, |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 16/03/2018 Quote from "A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce" …Firstness, or the mode of being of that which is such as regardless of anything else, as exemplified by simple Qualities of feeling… |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/03/2018 Quote from "A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce" Firstness is the mode or element of being by which any subject is such as it is, positively and regardless of everything else; or rather, the category is... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 10/08/2017 Quote from "Definitions for Baldwin's Dictionary [R]" firstness, n. |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2017 Quote from "The Logic Notebook" Firstness is the Mode of Being of that which is such as it is positively and regardless of anything else. It is thus an abstract possibility, It can... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2014 Quote from "C.S.P.'s Lowell Lectures of 1903 2nd Draught of 3rd Lecture" Three kinds of elements can be discerned in whatever comes before the mind. The first is the element of Quality, such, for example, as Red; and including all the positive suchness of the idea in... |
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Manuscript | Posted 25/11/2014 Peirce, Charles S. (1903). C.S.P.'s Lowell Lectures of 1903 2nd Draught of 3rd Lecture. MS [R] 462 Robin Catalogue: Beta Graph, Alpha-impossibility, Beta-impossibility, Principle of Contradiction, Principle of Excluded Middle, Relation, Reference, Gamma Graph, Ens Rationis, Softness, Hardness, Adjectival Meaning, Constitutive Principle, Regulative Principle, Pragmatism, Dormitive Virtue, Quality, Possibility, Law of Nature, Existence, Dyadic Relation, Triadic Relation, Brute Relation, Rerelation, Conception, Giving, Law, Sign, Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, Icon, Index, Symbol
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Article in Journal | Posted 25/11/2014 Dea, Shannon (2008). Firstness, Evolution and the Absolute in Peirce's Spinoza The article presents an analysis on whether or not philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce considered the possibility that philosopher Benedictus Spinoza's metaphysics includes ontological Firstness...
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Article in Journal | Posted 23/11/2014 Ostdiek, Gerald (2014). The Manufacture of Chance: Firstness as a Fixture of Life
Whereas Peirce’s logic (and belief therein) drove him to postulate a primitive sentiency of physical matter, this essay argues that life exhibits behavior that is radically discontinuous from its...
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 16/09/2014 Quote from "The Logic Notebook" In the contents of consciousness we recognize three sorts of elements, Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness. A First is whatever it is in itself regardless of all else whether exterior to it or parts... |
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Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014 Peirce, Charles S. (1896). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 13 Robin Catalogue: Mathematics, Systems of Quantity, Philosophy, Logic, Metaphysics, Special Observational Sciences, Special Science, Psychical Science, Physical Science, Nomological Science, Classificatory Science, Descriptive Science, Arts, Categories, Quality, Actuality, Law, First, Second, Third, Medium, Otherness, Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, Idea, Fact, Evolution, Artist, Practical Man, Philosopher, Singular fact, Dual Fact, Relation of Reason, Real Relation, Individual, Identity, Likeness, Plural Fact, Chaldean Metaphysics, Chaos, Partial Determination, Triplicity, Term, Proposition, Mathematics of Logic, Principle of Identity, Falsity, Principle of Contradiction, Principle of Excluded Middle, Function, Equivalence, Copula of Inclusion, Nota Notae, Principle of the Transitiveness of the Copula, Principle of Reasoning from Definition to Definitum, Principle of Hypothetic Syllogism, Principle of the Dilemma
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Manuscript | Posted 11/06/2014 Peirce, Charles S. (1897-8). Abstracts of 8 Lectures. MS [R] 942 From the Robin Catalogue: Continuity, Continuum, Quality, Logic of Events, Hegel, Existence, Real, Thisness, Possibility, Duality, Generality, Reaction, Secondness, Firstness, Threeness, Triad, Singularity, Combination, Time, Creation, Generalization, Habit, Objective, Subjective, Evolutionism, God, Herbert Spencer, Inner World, Outer World, Social World, Plato's World, Lamarckian Evolution, Darwinian Evolution, Idealism, Objective Logic, Casual Reaction, Substantial Reaction, Adventitious Reaction
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Encyclopedia Article | Posted 05/01/2014 Rosenthal, Sandra: "Firstness and the Collapse of Universals" Firstness is the most neglected of Peirce’s categories, and is frequently held to be either elusive or inherently inconsistent. Yet, one’s implicit understanding of Firstness guides the kind of... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013 Quote from "The List of Categories: A Second Essay" The idea of First is predominant in the ideas of freshness, life, freedom. The free is that which has not another behind it, determining its actions; but so far as the idea of the negation of... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013 Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby" … I was long ago (1867) led, after only three or four years’ study, to throw all ideas into the three classes of Firstness, of Secondness, and of Thirdness. This sort of notion is as distasteful... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/04/2013 Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby" The typical ideas of firstness are qualities of feeling, or mere appearances. The scarlet of your royal liveries, the quality itself, independently of its being perceived or remembered, is an... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/01/2013 Quote from "Pragmatism" Careful analysis shows that to the three grades of valency of indecomposable concepts correspond three classes of characters or predicates. Firstly come ” firstnesses,” or positive internal... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/01/2013 Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III" Category the First is the Idea of that which is such as it is regardless of anything else. That is to say, it is a Quality of Feeling. […] Category... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Lecture III [R]" Firstness is the mode of being which consists in its subject’s being positively such as it is regardless of aught else. That can only be a possibility. For as long... |
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Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2013 Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Lecture III [R]. MS [R] 460 From the Robin Catalogue: Logic, Augustus De Morgan, George Boole, Realism, Nominalism, Law, Scotism, Humanism, Epicureanism, John Stuart Mill, Stoicism, Scepticism, Frances Ellingwood Abbott, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Existence, Aristotle, Entelechy, Matter, Form, Evolution, Being: Modes of, Actuality, Secondness, Firstness, Possibility, Thirdness
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