ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY: Home Page of the International Peirce Community (frameset)

¥ ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY: Home Page of the International Peirce Community (frameset)

The Peirce Gateway

A philosophical website,
providing access to resources for
the life, work, and continuing interest in
the American philosopher, scientist, and humanist

Some other Peirce resource websites:

Peirce Edition
Project
at IUPUI

Institute for
Studies in
Pragmaticism

Peirce Studies
Group at
U of Navarra

Digital
Encyclopedia
of C S Peirce

Dictionary
of Peirce's
Terminology

The Peirce
Helsinki
Commens

Virtuality, Communication, and Community
     Thought is what it is only by virtue of its addressing a future thought which is in its value as thought identical with it, though more developed. In this way, the existence of thought now depends on what is to be hereafter; so that it has only a potential existence, dependent on the future thought of the community.

     No present actual thought (which is [in itself] a mere feeling) has any meaning, any intellectual value; for this lies not in what is actually thought, but in what this thought may be connected with in representation by subsequent thoughts, so that the meaning of a thought is altogether something virtual.

     Accordingly, just as we say that a body is in motion, and not that motion is in a body, we ought to say that we are in thought, and not that thoughts are in us.

-- Charles Peirce, Writings 2: 241,227,227n

BORROMEAN RINGS: no two hold together except by the mediation of a third

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Joseph Ransdell 1931–2010

Arisbe website architect and coordinator

Professor Emeritus
Dept of Philosophy Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409

U.S.A.

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Last modified November 11, 2009
Last modified by BU June 29, 2011