<div>Dear Rich,</div>
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<div>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...</div>

<div>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. </div>
<div>Try C.S Peirce (1857-1866 / 1965) Collected Papers. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. </div>
<div>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.</div>
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<div>hope this is some help to you,</div>
<div>best,</div>
<div>Gill<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 31/07/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rich Cooper</b> <<a href="mailto:rich@englishlogickernel.com">rich@englishlogickernel.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">I've been trying to read Pierce's "On a New List of Categories" at</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/newlist/nl-frame.htm" target="_blank">http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/newlist/nl-frame.htm</a></span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">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 <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#Theory_of_categories" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#Theory_of_categories</a></span></font></p>

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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Peirce's Categories (technical name: the cenopythagorean categories^{<a title="" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#cite_note-cenopythagorean-20%23cite_note-cenopythagorean-20" target="_blank">[21]</a>})</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Name:</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Typical characterizaton:</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">As universe of experience:</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">As quantity:</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Technical definition:</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Valence</span></font>, "adicity":</p></td></tr>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Firstness.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Quality of feeling.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Ideas, chance, possibility.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Vagueness, "some".</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Reference to a ground (a ground is a pure abstraction of a quality)^{<a title="" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Peirce#cite_note-ground-21%23cite_note-ground-21" target="_blank">[22]</a>}.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Essentially monadic (the quale, in the sense of the thing with the quality).</span></font></p></td></tr>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Secondness.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Reaction, resistance, (dyadic) relation.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Brute facts, actuality.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Singularity, discreteness.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Reference to a correlate (by its relate).</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Essentially dyadic (the relate and the correlate).</span></font></p></td></tr>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Representation.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Habits, laws, necessity.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Generality, continuity.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Reference to an interpretant*.</span></font></p></td>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Essentially triadic (sign, object, interpretant*).</span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">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.  </span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Alternative URLs appreciated,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">-Rich</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Sincerely,</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" color="black" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Rich Cooper</span></font></p>
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