Rich,
The material on Peirce in Wikipedia is a mess -- speaking as one of several foolhardy Peirceans who "died on the hill, or their swords, etc." trying to "fix it", all to no avail.
Best to get the 2 volume "Essential Peirce" for starters, and check out the articles at Joseph Ransdell's "Arisbe":
The first thing to know about Peirce's Categories is that he also called them "Predicaments", after a clssical-medieval usage that means a predicate of a predicate. In terms of the extensions of concepts this means that a Category is really a class of relations.
Cheers,
Jon
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> 5. [Peirce's] ON A NEW LIST OF CATEGORIES (Rich Cooper)
> 9. [Peirce's] ON A NEW LIST OF CATEGORIES (Gill Philip)
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> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:06:03 -0700
> From: "Rich Cooper" <rich_AT_Englishlogickernel.com>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] Pierce's ON A NEW LIST OF CATEGORIES
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> I've been trying to read Pierce's "On a New List of Categories" at
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> http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/newlist/nl-frame.htm
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> The problem is that it is highly populated with arcane terms that have
> little or no meaning to my 2008 experience. Does anyone have a more modern
> version, perhaps a rephrasing of the same material? This is the part about
> Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness, and all the ancillary materials in the
> following matrix from
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#Theory_of_categories
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> Peirce's Categories (technical name: the cenopythagorean categories[21]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#cite_note-cenopythagorean-20#cite_note-cenopythagorean-20> )
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> Name:
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> Typical characterizaton:
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> As universe of experience:
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> As quantity:
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> Technical definition:
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> Valence, "adicity":
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> Firstness.
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> Quality of feeling.
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> Ideas, chance, possibility.
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> Vagueness, "some".
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> Reference to a ground (a ground is a pure abstraction of a quality)[22]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#cite_note-ground-21#cite_note-g
> round-21> .
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> Essentially monadic (the quale, in the sense of the thing with the quality).
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> Secondness.
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> Reaction, resistance, (dyadic) relation.
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> Brute facts, actuality.
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> Singularity, discreteness.
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> Reference to a correlate (by its relate).
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> Essentially dyadic (the relate and the correlate).
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> Thirdness.
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> Representation.
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> Habits, laws, necessity.
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> Generality, continuity.
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> Reference to an interpretant*.
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> Essentially triadic (sign, object, interpretant*).
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> From hearing previous discussions about Pierce, this seems to be the kernel
> concept of his works. So it would be useful to know what he means in these
> areas.
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> Alternative URLs appreciated,
>
> -Rich
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rich Cooper
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> EnglishLogicKernel.com
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> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:49:28 +0200
> From: "Gill Philip" <g.philip.polidoro_AT_gmail.com>
> Subject: [Corpora-List] Pierce's ON A NEW LIST OF CATEGORIES
> To: "Rich Cooper" <rich_AT_englishlogickernel.com>
> Cc: corpora_AT_uib.no
>
> Dear Rich,
>
> having glanced at the URL you've been "trying to read", (Ithink) I see what
> the problem is - the paper is a very concise synthesis of ideas which, if I
> remember correctly (and it's been a long time since I read Peirce), are
> explained 'long-hand' elsewhere. Sometimes those seemingly brief writings
> actually take far longer to grasp than the longer ones...
> If you can get hold of a copy of Peirce's complete writings, you'll find all
> the terms better set out, probably over a series of chapters.
> Try C.S Peirce (1857-1866 / 1965) Collected Papers. Cambridge MA: Harvard
> University Press.
> If you're lucky, google books might have indexed it too. Otherwise we'll
> have to wait on some kind soul who'se modernised the language a bit.
>
> hope this is some help to you,
> best,
> Gill
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