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The Concept of the Correlate in Peirce's "New List of Categories".
- Source :
- Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society; Winter2021, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p65-88, 24p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to clarify what Peirce meant by "correlate" in his early paper "On a New List of Categories." I take up the interpretation of Peirce's concept of the correlate put forward by André De Tienne in his book L'analytique de la représentation chez Peirce , and I offer my own interpretation by pointing out the problems with De Tienne's view. De Tienne detects a certain confusion in Peirce's notion of the correlate in the "New List." The problem is that Peirce seems to be using the term "correlate" in two incompatible senses, namely: (1) that which occasions the introduction of reference to a ground, and (2) the second term of a dyadic or triadic relation. I will argue, however, that these two senses of the term "correlate" are incompatible only on a narrow, psychological reading of Peirce's notion of comparison and that there is no incompatibility if we understand comparison in a broader way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONCEPTS
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00091774
- Volume :
- 57
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 150911776
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.57.1.04