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Charles Peirce and firstness: The category of origins

  • Bent Sørensen , Torkild Thellefsen EMAIL logo und Amalia Nurma Dewi
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2. September 2020

Abstract

Peirce’s category of Firstness is first and fundamental. Without Firstness, we can say, nothing can (later) be – no time, no space, no things, no processes, no growth, no regularities, and no thoughts – hence, nothing of which we can ever conceive. However, despite the fundamentality of Peirce’s category of Firstness, we still do not believe that it has received the attention that it rightly deserves; not by Peirce himself, nor by his commentators. In the following we will, therefore, look at the category of Firstness and try to give a modest glimpse of its fundamentality in relation to four other of Peirce’s central concepts: namely, evolution, consciousness, icon, and, finally, abduction.


Corresponding author: Torkild Thellefsen, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, E-mail:

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