Category Archives: Peirce

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Understanding another person’s thought can be difficult.  Understanding the way another understands a third person’s thought, all the more so, even if that third person is not so formidable a thinker as Charles Sanders Peirce.  Measures of … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 Another point where the onrush of discussion and the impact of worldly distractions caused my train of thought to jump the track is here: Peirce List (1) (2) • RM • JA RM: First I … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce’s Categories • 15 In These Uncertain Times, as people keep saying, it’s become even harder to concentrate than usual and I keep losing track of tricky points coming up in discussion which cry out for further discussion but … Continue reading →

I’ve been too immersed in the Peirce List discussion of Robert Marty’s “Podium” paper to write much here — before I lose track of what I’ve been thinking the last several days I’ll need to ravel up my off-the-cuff remarks … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: I submit for your review this preprint which is awaiting publication: The Podium of the Universal Categories of C.S. Peirce Abstract This article organizes Peirce’s universal categories and their degenerate forms from their presupposition … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty RM: What do you think of the presuppositions between the levels? Do they make sense to you? At this point I have mostly questions, which would take further research to answer, not to mention … Continue reading →

Re: Peirce List • Robert Marty With a few choice exceptions I have always found Peirce’s earlier writings on categories, relations, and semiotics to be more clear, exact, and fruitful in practice than his last attempts to explain himself without … Continue reading →