Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce
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Resumo: | The main objective of this paper is to present a possible identity between the concepts of form and quality in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), by means of his arguments in his Semiotics and in his Cosmology. In other words, our goal is to show that firstness consists in a form, constituting part of the nature of thirdness, inasmuch as the tendency to generalization or to the acquisition of habits was foreshadowed in the origin of the cosmos. Of an inductive nature, the step from the absolute nothing to a unity of qualities foreshadows an intelligible universe of a formal nature. This unity may already be considered a restriction of a potentiality of a greater strength present in that germinal nothing: the first category is configured, then, as being of a qualitative potential nature. The adjective “qualitative” presents the kind of restriction of potentiality to which we referred: such potential is of this or that kind. The second category, by its turn, arises from a chaos of feelings: it is not the interaction between those feelings that brings the second category to reality, but the mere manifestation of the feeling which is, by its turn, characterized as the momentary appearance of quality. This appearance is not potential, but actual. It is already a fact; it is already a restriction of the qualitative potentiality. Feeling while actuality and quality in its potential state foreshadow the origin of the other that presents itself: this other is, therefore, inscribed in the nature of quality and already presents the duality object (quality as potentiality) and represented object (depersonalized appearance of a quality). Finally, the tendency to generalization is recognized by means of the relations that the qualities establish among themselves: inasmuch as the appearance of one or more qualities was maintained insistent, such qualities began to establish relations among themselves, giving space to a logical structure that multiplies those relations themselves, allowing for the inductive formation of laws and more complex objects, but always indebted to the available material foreshadowed in the origin: qualities. |
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Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders PeirceQualidade e forma na filosofia de Charles S. PeirceCosmologiaFormaInformaçãoPeirceQualidadeRepresentaçãoSemiótica.CosmologyFormInformationPeirceQualityRepresentationSemiotics.The main objective of this paper is to present a possible identity between the concepts of form and quality in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), by means of his arguments in his Semiotics and in his Cosmology. In other words, our goal is to show that firstness consists in a form, constituting part of the nature of thirdness, inasmuch as the tendency to generalization or to the acquisition of habits was foreshadowed in the origin of the cosmos. Of an inductive nature, the step from the absolute nothing to a unity of qualities foreshadows an intelligible universe of a formal nature. This unity may already be considered a restriction of a potentiality of a greater strength present in that germinal nothing: the first category is configured, then, as being of a qualitative potential nature. The adjective “qualitative” presents the kind of restriction of potentiality to which we referred: such potential is of this or that kind. The second category, by its turn, arises from a chaos of feelings: it is not the interaction between those feelings that brings the second category to reality, but the mere manifestation of the feeling which is, by its turn, characterized as the momentary appearance of quality. This appearance is not potential, but actual. It is already a fact; it is already a restriction of the qualitative potentiality. Feeling while actuality and quality in its potential state foreshadow the origin of the other that presents itself: this other is, therefore, inscribed in the nature of quality and already presents the duality object (quality as potentiality) and represented object (depersonalized appearance of a quality). Finally, the tendency to generalization is recognized by means of the relations that the qualities establish among themselves: inasmuch as the appearance of one or more qualities was maintained insistent, such qualities began to establish relations among themselves, giving space to a logical structure that multiplies those relations themselves, allowing for the inductive formation of laws and more complex objects, but always indebted to the available material foreshadowed in the origin: qualities.O principal objetivo deste artigo é apresentar uma identidade possível entre os conceitos de forma e de qualidade na filosofia de Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), por meio de seus argumentos em sua Semiótica e em sua Cosmologia. Em outras palavras, nosso objetivo é mostrar que a primeiridade consiste em uma forma, parte constitutiva da natureza da terceiridade, na medida em que a tendência à generalização ou à aquisição de hábitos estava prefigurada na origem do cosmos. De natureza indutiva, o passo do nada absoluto para uma unidade de qualidades prefigura um universo inteligível de natureza formal. Esta unidade já pode ser considerada uma restrição de uma potencialidade de força maior presente naquele nada germinal: a primeira categoria é configurada, então, como sendo de natureza potencial qualitativa. O adjetivo “qualitativa” apresenta uma espécie de restrição da potencialidade para a qual nos referimos: tal potencial é desta ou daquela espécie. A segunda categoria, por sua vez, surge de um caos de sentimentos: não é a interação entre tais sentimentos que traz a segunda categoria à realidade, mas a mera manifestação do sentimento que é, por sua vez, caracterizado como a aparência momentânea da qualidade. Esta aparência não é potencial, mas atual. Ela já é um fato; ela já é uma restrição da potencialidade qualitativa. Sentimento enquanto atualidade e qualidade em seu estado potencial prefiguram a origem do outro que se apresenta: este outro está, portanto, inscrito na natureza da qualidade e já apresenta a dualidade objeto (qualidade como potencialidade) e objeto representado (aparência despersonalizada de uma qualidade). Por fim, a tendência à generalização é reconhecida por meio das relações que as qualidades estabelecem entre si: na medida em que o aparecimento de uma ou mais qualidades se manteve insistente, tais qualidades começaram a estabelecer relações entre si, permitindo a formação indutiva de leis e objetos mais complexos, mas sempre devedores do material disponível prefigurado na origem: qualidades.Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo2020-02-16info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitiofilosofia/article/view/4651010.23925/2316-5278.2019v20i2p343-377Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia; Vol. 20 No. 2 (2019); 343-377Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia; v. 20 n. 2 (2019); 343-3772316-52781518-7187reponame:Cognitio (São Paulo. 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Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce Qualidade e forma na filosofia de Charles S. Peirce |
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Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce |
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Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce Ferraz, Alexandre Augusto Cosmologia Forma Informação Peirce Qualidade Representação Semiótica. Cosmology Form Information Peirce Quality Representation Semiotics. |
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Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce |
title_full |
Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce |
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Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce |
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Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce |
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Quality and Form in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce |
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Ferraz, Alexandre Augusto |
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Ferraz, Alexandre Augusto D’Ottaviano, Itala M. Loffredo |
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D’Ottaviano, Itala M. Loffredo |
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Ferraz, Alexandre Augusto D’Ottaviano, Itala M. Loffredo |
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Cosmologia Forma Informação Peirce Qualidade Representação Semiótica. Cosmology Form Information Peirce Quality Representation Semiotics. |
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Cosmologia Forma Informação Peirce Qualidade Representação Semiótica. Cosmology Form Information Peirce Quality Representation Semiotics. |
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The main objective of this paper is to present a possible identity between the concepts of form and quality in the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), by means of his arguments in his Semiotics and in his Cosmology. In other words, our goal is to show that firstness consists in a form, constituting part of the nature of thirdness, inasmuch as the tendency to generalization or to the acquisition of habits was foreshadowed in the origin of the cosmos. Of an inductive nature, the step from the absolute nothing to a unity of qualities foreshadows an intelligible universe of a formal nature. This unity may already be considered a restriction of a potentiality of a greater strength present in that germinal nothing: the first category is configured, then, as being of a qualitative potential nature. The adjective “qualitative” presents the kind of restriction of potentiality to which we referred: such potential is of this or that kind. The second category, by its turn, arises from a chaos of feelings: it is not the interaction between those feelings that brings the second category to reality, but the mere manifestation of the feeling which is, by its turn, characterized as the momentary appearance of quality. This appearance is not potential, but actual. It is already a fact; it is already a restriction of the qualitative potentiality. Feeling while actuality and quality in its potential state foreshadow the origin of the other that presents itself: this other is, therefore, inscribed in the nature of quality and already presents the duality object (quality as potentiality) and represented object (depersonalized appearance of a quality). Finally, the tendency to generalization is recognized by means of the relations that the qualities establish among themselves: inasmuch as the appearance of one or more qualities was maintained insistent, such qualities began to establish relations among themselves, giving space to a logical structure that multiplies those relations themselves, allowing for the inductive formation of laws and more complex objects, but always indebted to the available material foreshadowed in the origin: qualities. |
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