[Inquiry] Re: Grounds And Respects

[Jon Awbrey]

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GAR.  Note 11

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| Section 3.  Externality
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| Proposition.  All unthought is thought-of.
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| Proof.  We can sometimes think of the unthinkable as thought;
| we have, for instance, a conception of the conception Infinity,
| though we cannot attain that conception.
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| To think of a thing is to think in such a way that our conception has
| a relation to that thing.  When we think of a thing's being blue, we
| think of blue things, in general.  When we think of a thing's being
| long, we have a reference to those that are short.  In the same way,
| any unthought which is not thought of as thought, is by the relation
| of complete negation, negatively thought of as unthought.
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| Cor. 1.  Only the phenomena can be thought of as thought,
| the things in themselves are thought of as unthought.
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| Cor. 2.  All 'noumena' (things-in-themselves)
| are unconditioned because they cannot even be
| thought of as thought.
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| Cor. 3.  All thought is thereby thought of, for it would not be in
| our consciousness unless we were conscious of it.  Hence, all things
| in heaven and earth are thought of, however small our experience may be.
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| Cor. 4.  Whatever is unthought is apprehended, for
| as I showed before all falsehood is partial truth.
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| Whatever is thought-of can be normally thought of.
| Normal thought is true.
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| .:  All the unconditioned is apprehended and may be so without error.
|     To formulate it:  Whatever is unintelligible is true.
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| Idealism.  The only possible definition of the person (self)
| is that which one thinks of when he closess his senses and
| excludes all thought but simple consciousness.  That is, it
| is the thought-of, when the only thought-of is the thought.
| By Cor. 3 nothing external to the self exists.
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| Materialism.  Matter is substance whose existence is
| not subject to mental conditions.  By Cor. 2 Nothing
| but matter exists and the soul is matter.
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| Realistic Pantheism.  From Idealism, it follows that nothing exists which
| is not of-thinkable as thought.  From Materialism, it follows that nothing
| but the unthought exists.  That which being unthinkable is of-thinkable as
| thought is Perfection.  In Chapter 3 of the Introduction, it was shown that
| Perfection is God.  Hence, nothing exists but God.
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| Here then we have three worlds Matter, Mind, God, mutually excluding
| and including each other, as I showed was possible in one of my letters.
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| Synthesis
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| Let us now restate the problem and see whether it answers itself.
| Given three worlds completely unrelated except in identity of
| substance.  Everything which springs up freely in one of these,
| the Mind, does so from the very nature and substance thereof.
| Verity is unity of substance.  It is clear that these data
| answer the question How Innate Notions can be True to
| External Fact.  The connection between mind and
| matter is thus a pre-established Harmony.
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 82-83
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| 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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