[Inquiry] Re: Actual, Existent, Real -- Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

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AER.  Discussion Note 6

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Gary,

I am falling a little behind, but I continue with the catch-and-release
of certain red herrings that might otherwise throw us off the escents of
Peirce's more genuine mis-anticipations of his future mis-interpretations.

The power of attraction that some myths have,
to generate a gravitational scotoma that blots
out the reading or remembering of what is evident
to every undistructed reader on the first reading,
like the fact that Peirce had an idea of the index
as a degenerate type of sign, whose degeneracy lies
in its approximation to a 2-adic denotation relation
and the decomposition of this relation between signs
and objects through an existential or instantial locus,
thus implying degeneracy, 2-adicity or secondness, and
existential instantiation all in one fell swoop, an idea
that appears in a panoply of works that he produced between
1865 and 1870 -- we cannot fault him for not foreseeing that.
The explanation of such singular phenomena, I didn't say rare,
has to be sought in the psycho-political not the philosophical.

Jon Awbrey

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