[Inquiry] Re: Logic Of The Sciences

[Jon Awbrey]

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LOTS.  Note 6

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| Now proximate or highest differences are such as affect the greatest
| number of marks.  This can be shown by example.  Being male is not
| a proximate difference of animal because it affects but few marks;
| but having a backbone is, because it affects almost all the marks.
| Hence as differences in the Ground are the only ones which affect
| all the marks of representation, they must constitute the proximate
| differences of representation.  Now the ground of a representation
| has three marks
|
|    1st  It determines a certain representation
|         to refer to a certain Object
|
|    2nd  It determines that representation
|         to refer to it [the ground]
|
|    3rd  It determines that representation
|         to refer to a certain subject
|
| These marks are all marks of determination.  Now a determination
| is in reference to another determination either mediate or immediate;
| that is, it either results from the latter or not.  The second of the
| above determinations is absolutely immediate and the others are mediate
| in reference to it.  They are either mediate or immediate in reference
| to each other.  Such differences will affect both of these marks and
| so the ground and so its second mark by affecting the object of it.
| Hence they are proximate differences of the ground and hence they
| are proximate differences of representation.
| 
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 327-328
|
| C.S. Peirce, "Logic of the Sciences", MS 113 (1865), pp. 322-336 in:
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce:  A Chronological Edition, Vol. 1, 1857-1866',
| Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

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