[Inquiry] Re: Manifolds Of Diverse Impressions

[Jon Awbrey]

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MODI.  Note 14

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| Section 9.  Formal Objects
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| We have found between the unity of being and the manifold of substance,
| three universal and necessary (//'de omni'/['kata pantos']//) conceptions;
| namely:
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|    Reference to a ground
|    Reference to a correlate
|    Reference to an interpretant.
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| A ground is that pure abstraction, the embodiment of which makes a quality.
| A correlate is a second substance with which the first is in comparison.
| An interpretant, is a representation which represents that that which
| is referred to it is a representation of the same object which it
| does itself represent.
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| These three conceptions are all we require to erect the edifice of logic.
| Why they should be three is unknown;  although a reason can be given
| for every other logical division.  But this number may indicate
| an anthropological fact.
|
| In the section on precision, it was shown that more immediate
| conceptions cannot be prescinded from elementary conceptions
| which explain them;  while there is no such impossibility of
| prescinding the more mediate from the less mediate.  Hence, as
| the order in which we have taken the three references proceeds
| from the more mediate to the less mediate, it follows that no
| reference to an interpretant can abstract from reference to a
| correlate;  nor any reference to a correlate from reference to
| a ground;  whereas reference to a ground may be of such a kind
| that it can be prescinded from reference to a correlate;  and
| reference to a correlate may be such that it can be prescinded
| from reference to an interpretant.  Thus the three references
| give three prescindible objects;  namely:
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|    1  Single reference to a ground,
|    2  Double reference to ground and correslate,
|    3  Triple reference to ground, correlate, and interpretant.
|
| These may be termed Quality, Relation, and Representation
| and the objects to which they belong as characters, may be
| called Quale, Relate, and Representamen.
|
| The quale, the relate, and the representamen may be termed
| formal objects because the prescinded conceptions of them
| contain no reference to variously determinable impressions.
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| C.S. Peirce, 'Chronological Edition', CE 1, 524-525
|
|["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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