Thirdness

Keyword: Thirdness


Dictionary Entry | Posted 18/03/2018
Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni"

I find that there are in the phaneron,
[—]
3rd, elements each of which is as it is to a second and for a third, that is, its very...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 16/03/2018
Quote from "Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, and the Reducibility of Fourthness [R]"

Thirdness, or that which is such as it is in bringing a second into relation to a third. That thirdness cannot be reduced to any combination of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 15/03/2018
Quote from "A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce"

Thirdness is that mode or element of being whereby a subject is such as it is to a second and for a third; or rather, it is the characteristic ingredient of this...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/08/2017
Quote from "The Logic Notebook"

Tertiality is the Mode of Being of anything insofar as it is such as it is to a Second for a Third.

Manuscript | Posted 15/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1904). Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness, and the Reducibility of Fourthness [R]. MS [R] 914

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 5-8.
The nature of signs.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 07/01/2015
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Part 1 of 3rd draught of 3rd Lecture"

We are too apt to think that what one means to do and the meaning of a word are quite unrelated meanings of the word “meaning,” or that they are only connected by both referring...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 25/11/2014
Quote from "C.S.P.'s Lowell Lectures of 1903 2nd Draught of 3rd Lecture"

This element of our daily & hourly experience, the element of the conformity of fact to thought, – this element whose being such as it is consists in this that it has...

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:
A. MS., n.p., October 5, 1903, pp. 2-88 (pagination by even numbers only), incomplete.
Alpha part of existential graphs: permissible operations. The Beta part....

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. [—] What a Third is depends on two other things between which it mediates. Firstness is...

Manuscript | Posted 01/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1896). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 13

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., [c.1895], pp. 1-13; 7-12, with an alternative p. 8 of another draft.
The principal questions raised are these: Why mathematics always deals with a...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 10/05/2013
Esposito, Joseph: "Synechism: the Keystone of Peirce’s Metaphysics"

Synechism, as a metaphysical theory, is the view that the universe exists as a continuous whole of all of its parts, with no part being fully separate, determined or determinate, and continues to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
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...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

I now come to Thirdness. To me, who have for forty years considered the matter from every point of view that I could discover, the inadequacy of Secondness to cover all that is in our minds is so...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Lecture III [R]"

Now for Thirdness. Five minutes of our waking life will hardly pass without our making some kind of prediction; and in the majority of cases these predictions are fulfilled in the event. Yet a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Part 1 of 3rd draught of 3rd Lecture"

But we constantly predict what is to be. Now what is to be, according to our conception of it, can never become wholly past. In general, we may say that meanings are inexhaustible. We are...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "CSP's Lowell Lectures of 1903. 2nd Part of 3rd Draught of Lecture III"

Let us proceed in the same way with Thirdness. We have here a first, a second, and a third. The first is a positive qualitative possibility, in itself nothing more. The second is an existent thing...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III"

Category the Third exhibits two different ways of Degeneracy, where the irreducible idea of Plurality, as distinguished from Duality, is present indeed but in maimed conditions. The First degree...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "Minute Logic: Chapter I. Intended Characters of this Treatise"

Let us now take up being in futuro. As in the other cases, this is merely an avenue leading to a purer apprehension of the element it contains. An absolutely pure conception of a Category...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
Quote from "The List of Categories: A Second Essay"

Had there been any process intervening between the causal act and the effect, this would have been a medial, or third, element. Thirdness, in the sense of the...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 09/03/2013
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 to which it is second....

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