Firstness
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Part 1 of 3rd draught of 3rd Lecture" The immediate present, could we seize it, would have no character but its Firstness. Not that I mean to say that immediate consciousness (a pure fiction, by the way), would be Firstness, but that... |
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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. Part 1 of 3rd draught of 3rd Lecture. MS [R] 464 From the Robin Catalogue: |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "CSP's Lowell Lectures of 1903. 2nd Part of 3rd Draught of Lecture III" When you strive to get the purest conceptions you can of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness, thinking of quality, reaction, and mediation – what you are striving to apprehend is pure Firstness,... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "CSP's Lowell Lectures of 1903. 2nd Part of 3rd Draught of Lecture III" A Firstness is exemplified in every quality of a total feeling. It is perfectly simple and without parts; and everything has its quality. Thus the tragedy of King Lear has its Firstness, its... |
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Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2013 Peirce, Charles S. (1903). CSP's Lowell Lectures of 1903. 2nd Part of 3rd Draught of Lecture III. MS [R] 465 From the Robin Catalogue: |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise" Let us now consider what could appear as being in the present instant were it utterly cut off from past and future. We can only guess; for nothing is more occult than the absolute present. There... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives" I will only mention here that the ideas which belong to the three forms of rhemata are firstness, secondness, thirdness; firstness, or spontaneity; secondness, or... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "A Guess at the Riddle" The First is that whose being is simply in itself, not referring to anything nor lying behind anything. The Second is that which is what it is by force of something... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "A Guess at the Riddle" We have seen that it is the immediate consciousness that is preeminently first, the external dead thing that is preeminently second. In like manner, it is evidently... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "A Guess at the Riddle" Indeterminacy, then, or pure firstness, and hæcceity, or pure secondness, are facts not calling for and not capable of explanation. |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 08/01/2013 Quote from "One, Two, Three: Kantian Categories" If the universe is thus progressing from a state of all but pure chance to a state of all but complete determination by law, we must suppose that there is an original, elemental, tendency of... |
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Manuscript | Posted 04/01/2013 Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Syllabus: Syllabus of a course of Lectures at the Lowell Institute beginning 1903, Nov. 23. On Some Topics of Logic. MS [R] 478 From the Robin Catalogue: Classification of Sciences, Auguste Comte, Science of Discovery, Science of Review, Practical Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, Idioscopy, Phenomenology, Phenomenon, Normative Science, Metaphysics, Physical Science, Psychical Science, Nomological Physics, Classificatory Physics, Nomological Psychics, Classificatory Psychics, Descriptive Psychics, Speculative Grammar, Critic, Methodeutic, Psychology, Ethnology, History, Ontology, Religious Metaphysics, Physical Metaphysics, Crystallography, Biology, Chemistry, Ethics of Terminology, Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, Hegel, Consciousness, Degeneracy, Law, Dissociation
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Encyclopedia Article | Posted 21/12/2012 Chiasson, Phyllis: "The Role of Optimism in Abduction" Optimism may not seem like a topic with which good scientific minds need bother themselves. After all, it would seem that neither optimism nor pessimism should have anything to do with the neutral... |