[Inquiry] Re: Manifolds Of Diverse Impressions

[Jon Awbrey]

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MODI.  Note 2

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| [On a Method of Searching for the Categories], MS 133 (1866)
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| Introduction
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| Section 1.  Impressions
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| 'Intuition' is a term, which by the consent of philosophers stands for
| 'immediate cognition';  but what 'immediate cognition' stands for is not
| quite so well settled.  In its most approved sense, however, it means any
| mental representation which does not represent its object by representing
| another conscious representation of the latter;  in other words, it is that
| knowledge between which and the thing no other representation in consciousness,
| intervenes.  Unfortunately, this definition turns on the word 'consciousness', --
| a sadly equivocal expression, itself.  Still, the widest acceptation of this
| term, to include the presentative character of all that is within us, is to be
| preferred both on the ground of usage and because it is the only way we have of
| expressing that most important conception.  Thus interpreted, 'immediate cognition'
| is the same as what is otherwise termed an ultimate fact;  that is, a premiss not
| itself a conclusion, an empirical constituent of knowledge not itself containing
| non-empirical parts, in short, an 'impression'.
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| Whether there be any such ultimate premisses is a difficult question.  It amounts,
| however, merely to this;  whether the boundary of consciousness is in consciousness
| or out of it.  In whichever way it be decided, the employment of a word to denote
| that boundary is legitimate.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 515
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|["On a Method of Searching for the Categories"], MS 133 (1866), pp. 515-528 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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