[Inquiry] Re: Grounds And Respects -- Discussion

[Jon Awbrey]

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GAR.  Discussion Note 7

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BB = Bill Bailey

Re: GAR-DIS 6.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-March/002457.html
In: GAR-DIS.    http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-March/thread.html#2447
 
BB: Thanks for the reply.  It was very helpful to see Peirce's writings
    mounted on a framework -- and also to know when he wrote it.  You
    used the terms "medium" and "mediation," which are the terms I'd
    use for the sensory system and its function.  Did Peirce anywhere
    write of the sensory system as medium?

Bill,

Those were my interpolations, and I better leave them embedded in the moment,
as I've seen too many fights get started over the loose and exact senses of
"direct", "immediate", "mediate", and so on, especially in relation to the
hairs that folks can split between sensation, perception, and conception.
It's my general impression that Peirce treats data of the senses on a par
with signs and inferences, all of which are mediations, except that when
"a faculty is exerted in the only manner in which it is constructed to act",
then that particular "motion of the mind" is "absolutely" beyond control and
thus not subject to "immediate" criticism or amenable to "immediate" correction.

Jon Awbrey

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