Trikonic Analysis.2FPeircean Category Theory Trikonic

figure 2.0 3 peircean categories

another way of describing basic understanding of these notions sowa:

“first conception of being or existing independent of else. second conception of being relative to, conception of reaction, else. third conception of mediation, whereby first , second brought relation. (1891)”

trikonically represented, categories (figure 2.0):

there many ways in these notions can interpreted. these can represented as:

peirce s 3 universes of experience (figure 3.0):

figure 3.0 peirce s 3 universes of experience:

these in turn represent peirce s 3 universal categories (figure 4.0 universal categories):

figure 4.0 universal categories:

in addition universal categories, there equivalent existential categories (figure 5.0 existential categories):

figure 5.0 existential categories:

we can trikonically analyse thought, identifying 3 logical modalities (figure 6.0 logical modalities):

figure 6.0 logical modalities:

with these representations in mind, firstness, secondness , thirdness can defined following:

firstness concerned ideas, character, qualities, feeling, image , possibility.
secondness signifies events, brute actions, reactions, existence , character.
thirdness brings firstness in relation secondness.