[Inquiry] Re: Grounds And Respects

[Jon Awbrey]

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GAR.  Note 9

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| Section 2.  Innateness of Notions
|
| In the phrase "Innate Ideas", Idea is used in an improper sense
| instead of 'representation', which is the proper word.  I used
| the word 'notion', because that has no definite signification,
| and I wish to direct attention to the quality of Innateness.
|
| The nature of a product is derived from its producer.
| When we think of  thing (whether present or absent),
| our thought is a product of the action of the thing
| on the mind.
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| The acting of one thing upon another is a state of things
| which has three elements: -- 1st The state of the agent,
| 2nd the state of the patient, 3rd the static relation
| of agent to patient.
|
| The state of a thing has two elements
| 1st The nature of the thing and
| 2nd its relations.
|
| .:  Every thought has three elements and possibly a fourth
|
|     1  The Nature of the Thing
|     2  The Nature of the Mind
|     3  The Relations of the Thing to the Mind
|     4  The Occult Relations of the Thing and of the Mind.
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 80-81
|
| C.S. Peirce, ["A Treatise on Metaphysics"], MS 70 (1861-1862), pp. 57-84 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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