[Inquiry] Re: Manifolds Of Diverse Impressions

[Jon Awbrey]

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MODI.  Note 6

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Re: [On a Method of Searching for the Categories], MS 133 (Nov-Dec, 1866)
In: MODI.  http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/2005-March/thread.html#2434

| Section 4.  Precision, Discrimination, and Dissociation
|
| Precision and abstraction are two terms for the same process;
| and are now limited not merely to separation by the mind, but
| even to a particular kind of mental separation, namely, that
| by 'attention' to one point and 'neglect' of another.  That
| which is 'attended' to is said to be 'prescinded';  and that
| which is neglected is said to be 'abstracted from'.  This
| definition should be strictly adhered to, however narrowly
| it may limit the application of the terms.  Attention is
| a definite conception or 'supposition' of one element
| of consciousness, without any positive 'supposition'
| of the other.
| 
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 518
|
|["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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