| Popis: |
Peirce distinguishes between two sets of phenomenological categories, the formal quantitative categories and the material qualitative categories. The former are isolated by direct attentional inspective analysis wherein the formal and logical categories of firstness, secondness, and thirdness are employed as heuristics. The formal quantitative phenomenological categories are quality, brute reaction, and representation, and they are also evident in temporality as presentness, pastness, and futurity and in modality as possibility, actuality, and necessity. The material qualitative categories are positiveness and negativeness and are correlated with the extremes of a continuum. I first provide an overview of the categories and then I chronologically present the developments in Peirce’s thinking about these categories. |
