[Inquiry] Re: Logic 101

[Jon Awbrey]

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LOG.  Note 11

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| Lowell Lecture 9 (cont.)
|
| We saw that the data which justify an unanalyzed conception cannot be
| prescinded from it.  If a certain piece of music is judged beautiful we
| cannot suppose it to sound as it does and not be beautiful.  We saw also
| that the occasion of the introduction of a simple conception justifies its
| introduction.
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| The function of universal conceptions in general is to bring
| the manifold of substance to the unity of 'being'.  Each one
| therefore connects the manifold of substance itself or else
| connects a necessary conception with substance.
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| Now we have only to notice as a fact what is the occasion
| of the introduction of a conception and we shall find it
| is the occurrence of the substance in connection with
| a certain conception, and this conception is the one
| which next precedes the given conception in the
| progress of truth from substance to being.
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| We found, for example, that 'being' is what is implied in the copula.
| Now the copula conjoins predicate to subject.  The subject denotes the
| substance, the predicate its Quality.  Quality therefore or reference
| to a 'Ground' is the 1st conception before 'being'.  By a 'ground',
| you remember, I meant the pure form or abstraction which is the
| original of the thing and of which the concrete thing is only
| the incarnation.  Reference to such a 'ground' or 'respect'
| of likeness is implied in every attribution.
|
| To find the next conception in order we asked upon what 'occasion'
| the conception of quality is introduced.  We found it to be when
| generalization and contrast takes place, that is when things
| are put into comparison.  Hence, 'relation' or reference to
| a correlate is the next conception in order.  'Relate' and
| 'correlate', you remember, are terms employed to signify
| merely the thing related and the thing related 'to'.
|
| To find what is the next conception in order we inquired
| what is the 'occasion' of the introduction of reference to
| a correlate.  It appeared that it is the reference of things
| to a mediating representation or 'interpretant'.  Reference to
| an interpretant is therefore the next conception in order;  and
| by an interpretant we mean a representation of something else of
| which it is itself a representation.
|
| We then asked what is the next conception and for
| that purpose inquired what is the occasion of the
| reference of things to a mediating representation.
| We found it was the presentation of a manifold;
| and hence substance, which is the conception of
| this presented manifold in general, is the next
| conception in order.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 474
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|"The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis",
| Lowell Institute Lectures (1866), pp. 357-504 in:
|'Writings of Charles S. Peirce:  A Chronological Edition',
|'Volume 1, 1857-1866', Peirce Edition Project,
| Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 1982.

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