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

[Jon Awbrey]

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AER.  Discussion Note 8

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Gary,

One of the consequences of 3-adic irreducibility is the impossibility
of adequately describing phenomena that depend on 3-adic relations in
a language that is wholly lacking or even just radically impoverished
in terms and concepts for anything but 1-adic and 2-adic relations.
And yet many so-called "attempts to understand Peirce's thought"
are really just attempts to re-phrase what demands the terms
of 3-adic relations in terms of a language that lacks them.

Did Peirce himself contribute to the illusion
that such a sleight of hand might be possible?

I will let you muse on that a while ...

Jon Awbrey

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