A Question About Peirce's Categories

Jon Awbrey <[email protected]>
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Re: Diane Stephens
At: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/7973

Diane,

Between any 2 sets of 3 there are 3! (count 'em, 6)
ways of forming a 1-to-1 correspondence, and there
may be reason for considering the sense of each 1.
When it comes to Peirce's categories, which are
best understood as the dimensions of relations,
roughly speaking, what monadic, dyadic, triadic
relations, respectively, have in common, it is
also good to recall that Peirce often stressed
the order: 1st, 2nd, 3rd = First, Last, Middle.

| By the third, I mean the medium or connecting
| bond between the absolute first and last.
| The beginning is first, the end second,
| the middle third.
|
| Peirce, CP 1.337

Regards,

Jon

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