[Inquiry] Re: Manifolds Of Diverse Impressions

[Jon Awbrey]

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MODI.  Note 7

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| Section 4.  Precision, Discrimination, and Dissociation (cont.)
|
| 'Abstraction', therefore, supposes a greater distinction
| between its members than 'discrimination' which is the mere
| recognition of the difference between the presence or absence
| of an element of cognition;  but it supposes less distinction
| than 'dissociation' which is the consciousness of one thing
| without the necessary simultaneous consciousness of the other.
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| Thus, I can discriminate red from blue, space from colour,
| and colour from space;  but not red from colour.
|
| I can prescind red from blue, and space from colour (as is
| manifest from the fact that I actually believe that there
| is an uncoloured space between my face and the page), but
| I cannot prescind colour from space, nor red from colour.
|
| I can dissociate red from blue, but I cannot dissociate
| space from colour, colour from space, nor red from colour.
|
| In the following table O shows what
| I can hold and X what I cannot hold.
|
|                         blue without red
|                         |   space without colour
|                         |   |   colour without space
|                         |   |   |   red without colour
|                         |   |   |   |
|    -------------------o---o---o---o---o
|    By discrimination  | O | O | O | X |
|    -------------------o---o---o---o---o
|    By precision       | O | O | X | X |
|    -------------------o---o---o---o---o
|    By dissociation    | O | X | X | X |
|    -------------------o---o---o---o---o
|
| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 518-519
|
|["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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