[Inquiry] Re: Manifolds Of Diverse Impressions

[Jon Awbrey]

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MODI.  Note 8

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| Section 4.  Precision, Discrimination, and Dissociation (concl.)
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| If 'A' can be discriminated or dissociated from 'B',
| 'B' can also be separated from 'A', in the same mode.
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| But precision is not thus reciprocal;  but on the
| contrary it is frequently the case that though 'A'
| cannot be prescinded from 'B', 'B' can be prescinded
| from 'A'.  This circumstance is easily accounted for.
| Elementary conceptions only arise upon the occasion of
| experience;  that is they are produced for the first time
| according to a general law the condition of which is the
| existence of certain impressions.  Now if a conception does
| not reduce the impressions which it accompanies to unity, it
| would be a mere arbitrary addition to the latter, for there is
| no other condition for the production of a conception except that
| it shall make impressions comprehensible.  Now if the impressions
| could be definitely conceived without the conception, the conception
| would not reduce them to unity.  But attention is definite conception;
| therefore impressions (or more immediate conceptions) cannot be attended
| to, to the neglect of an elementary conception which reduces them to unity.
| On the other hand, when such a conception has once been obtained, there is
| no reason in general why the premisses which have occasioned it should not be
| neglected, and therefore the explaining conception may abstract from the more
| immediate ones and from the impressions.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 519
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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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