Quote from "A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Thirdness’ (pub. 15.03.18-13:33). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-brief-intellectual-autobiography-charles-sanders-peirce-17.

Term:

Thirdness

Quote:

Thirdness is that mode or element of being whereby a subject is such as it is to a second and for a third; or rather, it is the characteristic ingredient of this definition, which is prominent in the ideas of instrument, organon, method, means, mediation, betweenness, representation, communication, community, composition, generality, regularity, continuity, totality, system, understanding, cognition, abstraction, etc. [—] Thirdness is subject to two grades of degeneracy. All genuine thirdness has a mental character.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1983). A Brief Intellectual Autobiography by Charles Sanders Peirce. The American Journal of Semiotics, 2(1-2), 61-83.

References:

Peirce, 1983, p. 72-73; MS [R] L107:23-25

Date of Quote:

1904

Editorial Annotations:

This quote has been taken from Kenneth Laine Ketner's 1983 reconstruction of Peirce's 'Autobiography'

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-brief-intellectual-autobiography-charles-sanders-peirce-17