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How to Escape the Abyss of Nihilism
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In today's nihilistic age, many feel aimless and question whether we can find meaning and purpose in a world devoid of transcendence. Nietzsche's declaration that “God is dead” feels more real than ever, leaving us in a dilemma: the world alone cannot provide ultimate meaning, but we struggle to believe in the transcendent, which traditionally offered that meaning.
Is there a solution to this meaning crisis? Surprisingly, it doesn't lie in new metaphysics, self-improvement, spiritual practices, political change, or a return to Enlightenment ideals. The solution, according to philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce, lies in gaining a clear and correct understanding of logic.
Peirce claimed that our limited understanding of logic is the root of the meaning crisis. His view of logic differs significantly from contemporary perspectives. He proposed that grounding metaphysics in logic is crucial. By doing so, logic becomes the foundational structure of reality. Essentially, reality is built upon a logical framework to which it must conform. Logic studies this a priori formal structure, while metaphysics examines its a posteriori manifestations.
Logic, then, is transcendent, existing independently of the actual universe. If logic precedes metaphysics and our minds can conceive the principles of logic, then our minds are capable of reaching the transcendent. This means we are not confined to our limited, species-specific minds but can comprehend the fundamental form and structure of reality-the logic of reality, the eternal truths, the Truth.
Join us as we explore how a correct understanding of logic can address the meaning crisis and provide a new foundation for finding meaning and purpose in our lives.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
1:43 Is This a Cope?
2:33 The Solution
4:50 We Can't Deny Logic
6:30 Nature of Logic
7:37 Logic isn't Only Deductive
9:58 Logic is Vague
10:51 Logic Encompasses Everything
12:21 Logic is a Formal A Priori Science
13:25 The Key to Escape the Abyss
15:21 It isn't Metaphysics, but Logic
MUSIC:
Lobo Loco - Just A Moment
Antony Raijekov - Deep Blue
Antony Raikekov - Chillout Me
Antony Raikekov - While We Walk
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Culture is an Illusion, but it Works! (with Vinicius Romanini)
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Substack: philosign.substack.com/ X: PhiloSign If you want to support my work you can buy me a coffee here: buymeacoffee.com/philosign I had a great chat with Professor Vinicius Romanini about his upcoming book. We discussed Romanini's approach to semiotics, the focus of his work, and some new developments and changes compared to his PhD thesis. We delved into the concept of Semiost...
Peirce and Voegelin: The Transcendent, Purpose of Life, and Nature of Philosophy
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SubStack post: philosign.substack.com/p/echoes-of-infinity Substack: philosign.substack.com/ X: PhiloSign In this video, we explore the profound philosophical ideas of Eric Voegelin and their surprising alignment with the framework of Charles Peirce. Voegelin fearlessly tackles fundamental questions about existence and society, seeing the modernity as gnosticism and as a gnostic sic...
How Religion Shaped Peirce's Philosophy? (with Roger Ward)
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Link to the book: www.amazon.com/Peirce-Religion-Knowledge-Transformation-Philosophy/dp/1498531520 Peirce's religious views are often downplayed. However, according to Roger Ward, religion played a pivotal role in the development of Peirce's whole system of thought and the structure of his philosophy. What were Peirce's religious views? How do they relate to his semiotics? What is the purpose o...
Four Phases: The Logic of the Universe (Pt. 2)
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Substack: philosign.substack.com/ X: PhiloSign Tentative musements on the Four Phases and their meaning. Music: Antony Raijekov - Chillout Me Antony Raijekov - While We Walk TIMESTAMPS: coming soon...
Four Phases: The Logic of the Universe (Pt. 1)
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Substack: philosign.substack.com/ Twitter: PhiloSign Tentative musements on the Four Phases and their meaning. Music: Antony Raijekov - Chillout Me Antony Raijekov - While We Walk TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 What are the Four Phases? 01:41 The Semiotic Mindset 03:47 Universe has the nature of mind 06:34 It takes time to adapt the Semiotic Mindset /Can you prove the mindset? 08:48 I cannot for...
The Key Insight Missing from AI Research
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Follow me on Substack: philosign.substack.com/ and on Twitter: PhiloSign In order to reach real general intelligence and consciousness, AI has to be able to feel emotions. They are fundamental to consciousness. I hope you enjoy this conversation with the always insightful Vinicius Romanini. Check out his channel: www.youtube.com/@MinuteSemeiotic TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 We need a paradigm ...
PhiloSign Expands to Substack and Twitter
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Substack: philosign.substack.com/ Twitter: PhiloSign Music: Antony Raijekov - Chillout Me Antony Raijekov - While We Walk
Inquiry is Mutual Growth with the Universe
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Continuing the metaphysical musements. Again I try to clarify the difference between the reality (3rdness) and existence (2ndness). We also one of the core ideas of semiotics and explore the idea that inquiry is dialogue with signs and the universe. Music: Antony Raijekov - Chillout Me Antony Raijekov - While We Walk Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 1:21 We perceive particulars (2ndness) 3:12 Our ...
Two Conceptions of Truth: an Ideal of the Universe?
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Responding to an insightful comment made me re-examine my thoughts on truth. This lead me to inquire questions concerning the nature of reality. I also address why Peirce is quite challenging to understand, but nevertheless very much worth to explore. 00:00 Introduction 00:37 Insightful Comment 01:56 Three Concerns 02:32 1) Truth as an Ideal Limit 04:06 2) Only Humans Have Beliefs 04:48 3) Is T...
What is Truth?
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I present my (tentative) definition of truth. I intend to develop this definition in the future. Timestamps: Introduction 00:00 Definition 01:47 Systems are everywhere 02:46 Systems embody habits 03:53 Belief as a rule of action 04:20 Examples of beliefs 05:33 How to distinguish between false and true beliefs? 07:20 Beliefs must be in harmony with the environment 08:41 So, what is truth? 10:01 ...
Jordan Hall's Explore Mode & Habit Mode Visualized
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The Musing Sense Series: ua-cam.com/play/PL3Ly018tx3-TurC8YvcCUZ2vEgJvmMzoE.html Musing Sense: Explore Mode & Habit Mode ua-cam.com/video/0jmDm_GVq1A/v-deo.html TIMESTAMPS: Intro: 0:11 Jordan Hall: 01:28 VIDEO SOURCES: On Thinking and Simulated Thinking | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 6 ua-cam.com/video/VOA_BZdG4X8/v-deo.html Vervaeke & (Green)Hall: Bullshit & Simulated Thinking ua-cam.com/vide...
Diagram #1: Two Modes of Experience
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Timestamps: Work on progress... We learn the very important distinction betwen the Habit Mode and Explore Mode. LINKS: My Medium account: philosign.medium.com/ The Fixation of Belief by Charles Peirce www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html Logic & Philosophy's video on the article: ua-cam.com/video/TS4f9YVI-cM/v-deo.html MUSIC SOURCES: Antony Raijekov - Chillout Me Antony Raijekov - While We Walk
Diagram #1: Embodied Habits and World Modelling
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Diagram #1: Embodied Habits and World Modelling
Diagram #1: The Boundaries of a System
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Diagram #1: The Boundaries of a System
Diagram #1: The Basics
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Diagram #1: The Basics
Recognizing the Meaning Crisis - Introduction to Musing Sense
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Recognizing the Meaning Crisis - Introduction to Musing Sense
Quick Channel Update and the Upcoming Series
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Quick Channel Update and the Upcoming Series
Six Universal Predicaments and Three Tensions (Part 2)
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Six Universal Predicaments and Three Tensions (Part 2)
Signs, Universe and Life: A Conversation with Vinicius Romanini
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Signs, Universe and Life: A Conversation with Vinicius Romanini
Six Universal Predicaments and Three Tensions (Part 1)
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Six Universal Predicaments and Three Tensions (Part 1)
Ideas are Bulletproof
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Ideas are Bulletproof
The Basics of Semiotics (7): The 10 Signs of Peirce
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The Basics of Semiotics (7): The 10 Signs of Peirce
100 Subscribers Special: An Overlook on the Channel
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100 Subscribers Special: An Overlook on the Channel
The Four Phases Of Society
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The Four Phases Of Society
The Basics of Semiotics (6): How to Derive the 10 Signs
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The Basics of Semiotics (6): How to Derive the 10 Signs
The Basics of Semiotics (5): Rhema, Dicisign, Argument
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The Basics of Semiotics (5): Rhema, Dicisign, Argument
God does not Exist, but God is Real
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God does not Exist, but God is Real
The Basics of Semiotics (4): Icon, Index, Symbol
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The Basics of Semiotics (4): Icon, Index, Symbol
The Basics of Semiotics (3): Qualisign, Sinsign, Legisign
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The Basics of Semiotics (3): Qualisign, Sinsign, Legisign

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @ironbutterflyrusted
    @ironbutterflyrusted 17 днів тому

    The "truth" is a human word for a very human concept. The universe obviously cares not for our self-centered, earth bound, mumblings. In "truth" we are here without a guide or an instruction book. It is the folly of humans to believe that they have stumbled upon Laws, no less. That govern the running of an entire universe and everything within it. Logics, Rationale, Reason, Mathematics and the Sciences. All are just products of our imagination, based upon our limited senses and desire for patterns and symbols. Gaze deep into the night sky and ask yourself.... Do you feel as confident as you are told to be.?

  • @ellefanaten
    @ellefanaten Місяць тому

    You two 🔥🔥🔥

  • @ellefanaten
    @ellefanaten Місяць тому

    Curious about the triangle sign in top right corner?

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign Місяць тому

      @@ellefanaten It is the "Peircean triangle" used in his famous 10 signs. On the top left 1stness (yellow), on the bottom 2ndness (red), on the top right 3rdness (blue).

    • @ellefanaten
      @ellefanaten Місяць тому

      Cool- I'll look it up. Just getting started. Sign lover, Kristiansand Norge (Halvt finlandssvenska, Kaskinen/Kaskö Sydösterbotten) Studied frensh pragmatism locally. Stumbled over your wonderful youtube thing. Thanks! ​@@PhiloSign

    • @ellefanaten
      @ellefanaten Місяць тому

      L. Boltsnski

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign Місяць тому

      @@ellefanaten Here you can find my tutorials to semiotics philosign.com/tutorials In the "Diagrams" you can see various diagrams utilizing this idea of the triangle.

  • @ellefanaten
    @ellefanaten Місяць тому

    🎉🎉🎉

  • @superspiderdum
    @superspiderdum Місяць тому

    bro saved the world in one video...damn.

  • @ellefanaten
    @ellefanaten 2 місяці тому

    You are a absolute gem of man! A million trillion thanks- now I understand at least some of this. And this way of seeing things makes for a playful life❤

  • @marianop9214
    @marianop9214 2 місяці тому

    Dude, you owe us no explanation on why you may not have enough to make your videos. Nevertheless, your contribution is outstanding. Thank you very much for all your hard work (i hope you've been lucky with your Master Thesis)

  • @WildJester-em1he
    @WildJester-em1he 3 місяці тому

    I want to get into Pragmatism and Philosophers like Pierce for a bit thx for the video

  • @bryanutility9609
    @bryanutility9609 3 місяці тому

    None of this is useful at all. Only a logic nerd would value such babble.

  • @BaphomentIsAwsome666
    @BaphomentIsAwsome666 3 місяці тому

    Logic and reason are pranks. I would rather live and die blinded by passion

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      To live blinded by passions is living without any self-control or agency.

    • @BaphomentIsAwsome666
      @BaphomentIsAwsome666 3 місяці тому

      @PhiloSign We are all empty vessels waiting to be filled, there is no self only experience. Being a tool to reason and logic is empty and cold

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      @@BaphomentIsAwsome666 That may seem cold if one views reason and logic as deterministic cold calculation. Logic/semiotics is logic which is experience. All reasoning begins with perception and feeling.

    • @BaphomentIsAwsome666
      @BaphomentIsAwsome666 3 місяці тому

      @PhiloSign it's a downstream effect of the perception and our want to pass time, giving things thought takes away from the moment.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      As I see it thoughts have always an underlying feeling. But do you mean that we should sort of meld or merge emotionally with the surrounding environment? Be the surrounding feeling?

  • @Synechex
    @Synechex 3 місяці тому

    I always enjoy your videos, but I have to say that I don't think of being human as being static or finite. I recognize the morphology in all of existence and reality... The synechism in the folding and unfolding of the kaleidoscope. Like Heraclitis' fire or river. ... A gradience of emergence and ex-mergence. The relationality in human history. Ideas too, have a gradience and texture in their dialogics. Never black or white, or concretely separate. Reactive and dynamic, like a thermodynamics of thought. ... The elements of reality have similarities because they are all manifestations and expressions of Logos.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      By finite I meant that we born and we die. That everything we do and build has an end, at least as 2ndness (materially). However, I believe that humans occupy a place as mediators between the immanent and the transcendent, and that way may participate truly with the infinite - participate in the eternal life of the Logos.

  • @pyb.5672
    @pyb.5672 3 місяці тому

    I'm so excited to see the clarity with which you expose Peirce's logic from his semiotic point of view. This material is fascinating, and Im glad it's getting out into the world. Peirce truly is a goldmine. One thing I would mention though, is that material determinists aren't necessarily competing with this line of thinking. They are simply interested in a specific scope of knowledge, which has areas that don't overlap with other concepts such as the ones developed in semiotics. For example, physics uses concepts and a language that isn't suited to explain biological interactions. It doesn't mean it's not compatible with the findings in biology, just that it restricts itself in the boundaries of the domain of inquiry. That's just an emerging property of specialization of knowledge. Getting more into particulars, you have to abandon a certain generality.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      Peirce is truly fascinating and we are only scratching the surface here. Concerning your point on determinism. Peirce was a synechist, which means the philosophical idea that everything is ultimately connected. In other words, the reality is a one big continuum. Therefore, strict separations between things - all kinds of dualisms - are impossible. Based on the classification of the sciences, all special sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, etc.) are based on logic/semiotics. All inquiry is brought together by the Peircean framework.

  • @nimmero
    @nimmero 3 місяці тому

    Ok I did not expect this. Very good and informative video. Definitely will watch again as I did not catch everything, but the main message was clear. I would be interested in hearing some counter arguments and your reactions to it.

  • @melodyspeck7609
    @melodyspeck7609 3 місяці тому

    Didn't watch the video, but nihilism also solves nihilism.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      One possibility is to stay in the abyss.

    • @melodyspeck7609
      @melodyspeck7609 3 місяці тому

      ​@@PhiloSignno I mean freedom from meaning is meaning in itself.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      Isn't that paradoxical? Do you mean a sort of postmodern freedom?

  • @a-guess-at-the-riddle
    @a-guess-at-the-riddle 3 місяці тому

    Markus you are so good at presenting this material. Also the fact that you have only 1.1K subscribers boggles the mind as I think you are up there with the best educational channels. In addition I would expect more interest given the topic of Peirce & his Semiotics itself seems important for our time as a mediator across the perspectives of intellectual history.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      Thank you for your nice comment! Slowly but surely I try to connect Peirce to contemporary matters and especially to the meaning crisis in general.

  • @leonenriquez5031
    @leonenriquez5031 3 місяці тому

    You remind me of Peirce's classification of the sciences: Metaphysics cannot prescind of Logic. Excellent video, scientific inquiry can definitely be a source of meaning (transcendental, if you want). Even the quantum effects of what Peirce called the quasi-mind follow a certain kind of logic. But isn't Logic (or Semiotics), as a field of study, different than the "logic" we find in the patterns? Yes, we are immersed in an infinite semiotic web, but there are Interpretants, or logically consistent effects of different kinds, and there are Interpreters, who might aspire through evolution and learning to study and practice Logic. I mean, that "logic" we are immersed in might not be as limited as our Logic.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      In the Substack text one line of argument was made based on the classification of the sciences: philosign.substack.com/p/escaping-the-abyss-of-nihilism If I understand your question right, you are saying that the logic we know is an approximation of the "logic of reality" (the infinite semiotic web). I would say that the form of the logic (the taxonomy of 66 signs and their logical relations) is the same logic found in reality - the ultimate logic, if you will. But that is just the FORM. The logical form itself may manifest itself in infinite ways, many of which are outside of our perceptive capabilities. So reality is always novel and surprising, i.e. there is 1stness.

    • @leonenriquez5031
      @leonenriquez5031 3 місяці тому

      @@PhiloSign If by form you mean the necessary laws in triadic relations, like 1stness prescinding from 2ndness and 3rdness, and so on, maybe so. But the logic in reality and our Logic fields of study cannot be the same. One is a real pattern that we try to understand through science while the other is the (limited) understanding itself.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 3 місяці тому

      @@leonenriquez5031 I would agree on that. Romanini writes: "As a Class of Sign, the sign is an ens rationis, an “idea” that seeks to approximate to the true nature of the dynamic sign." This would be Logic I guess. Romanini continues: "The definitions given by the ancient avant la lettre semioticians, those provided by Peirce, Saussure and many other modern theorists of the sign (including those we will give in this work) are all attempts of capturing the true essence of the sign, which however insists on not letting itself be entirely understood. The dynamic sign remains out of semiotic, acting in the world indifferently from what we can think or say about it."

  • @robertjunqueira
    @robertjunqueira 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for this wonderful video.

  • @usamamohamad4654
    @usamamohamad4654 4 місяці тому

    Great video can you tell us more about Peirce realism

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 4 місяці тому

      There is some discussion of that theme in the interview with Roger Ward here: ua-cam.com/video/ADVXatWqi-g/v-deo.html Also check out my video on the distinction between Existence and Reality: ua-cam.com/video/7cuomd_AQHg/v-deo.html

  • @onty-op5587
    @onty-op5587 5 місяців тому

    This reminds me of Hegel. Firstness would be Pure Being, which is absolutely indeterminate. Secondness would be Determinate Being, and Thirdness would be Becoming, which is a mediation between Pure Being and Pure Nothing and a transition to Determinate Being.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 4 місяці тому

      Hegel and Peirce share many similarities, but they also have significant differences. Hegel considered 3rdness (Spirit/Geist) to be the ultimate foundation of everything. In contrast, Peirce viewed all three categories as equally important.

  • @Synechex
    @Synechex 5 місяців тому

    Always a pleasure to listen/watch the two of you discussing this. 🙂 ... Vinicius, you mention Peirce's perfect sign. ... Heraclitus's fire 😉 ""It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.” ... I've been writing about this same thing recently, and this is exactly why I use the banner image I use on all of my sites.

  • @Synechex
    @Synechex 5 місяців тому

    Hi Markus, .... I saw your note in comments here saying that you are recently rethinking the four phases, with interest in phasing from subconscious to conscious. I too have been focusing lately on the differences between phenomenology and phaneroscopy. I think there are treasures to be found in understanding hypostatic abstraction and reification, and then examining these concepts alongside inductive, abductive, and deductive reasoning. I also have some other ideas that I can't share here because they are proprietary to the work I am now doing with artificial intelligence. ... I have been writing a bit about this on my Facebook page, and I expect I will eventually post something on my Medium site. .... I so appreciate having you as a fellow traveler on this always intriguing journey. 🙂

  • @Beverley-pc7vh
    @Beverley-pc7vh 5 місяців тому

    huge thank you for this content! I'm doing a course on semiotics of art, I was initially very confused but now I feel engaged and intrigued to delve deeper.

  • @pimentacaio4255
    @pimentacaio4255 5 місяців тому

    Excellent class, very didatics.

  • @pimentacaio4255
    @pimentacaio4255 5 місяців тому

    a m a z i n g

  • @pimentacaio4255
    @pimentacaio4255 6 місяців тому

    Sensational!

  • @54johndavis
    @54johndavis 6 місяців тому

    I hope his new book has an English translation. Thanks for the great conversation.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 6 місяців тому

      Thanks for the comment! As I understand, the book will be published also in English.

  • @grivza
    @grivza 6 місяців тому

    I love everything about the idea they truth is social and that individuality is ignorance so I would like to see it being developed more.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 6 місяців тому

      Noted! That is truly an interesting idea.

  • @allornothing7005
    @allornothing7005 6 місяців тому

    ??????😅😅

  • @dangeloandthangs
    @dangeloandthangs 7 місяців тому

    Thank you so much for this! I am learning Peircean semiotics on my own...but now with your videos!

  • @TiamattheDestroyerofWorlds
    @TiamattheDestroyerofWorlds 7 місяців тому

    Man took 4 minutes to say first impressions.

    • @marianop9214
      @marianop9214 2 місяці тому

      If you've ever read Peirce, you'd understand why it took him 4 minutes to explain firstness

  • @Nalber3
    @Nalber3 7 місяців тому

    This is amazing, thank you clarifying the four phases. I think the last example you made with the listening a podcast, while driving, is perfect. Now I was pondering just now about dreaming. When you dream there's perception and experience, but understanding and sharing are pretty much vague and blurry. What are you thoughts on that?

    • @Nalber3
      @Nalber3 7 місяців тому

      I guess lucid dreaming makes the understanding a little more available, not sure about sharing.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 7 місяців тому

      I am currently rethinking the meaning of these phases. As a big change the perception phase is not anymore fully unconscious, but this is still very much work in progress. But your question about dreams. Dreams would be very much about the perception phase, as qualities and suggestions are freely flowing without a solid connection to the existent world.

  • @Synechex
    @Synechex 7 місяців тому

    Another thought. ..... Something to always be aware of in the nominalistic twists and turns of the history of human thought over the past few millennia. ... Keep this in mind, and it will help one navigate the confusing doctrines that others want one to subscribe to. ...... Watch for how 'embodied' is defined or described and watch for whether or not it is 'reduced'. .... Embodied Thirdness cannot be 'reduced' to particulars (parts). .... This gets a little murky when also trying to associate this with an 'instance' (instantiation). All of this has to do with how Thirdness is 'represented' in the manifested (physical) world. We must remember that reality is not static (fruit rots and iron rusts). Reality is a dynamic process! ✨ .... Here are two definitions of 'embody'. The way Peirce used it, and the Husserl/Merleau-Ponty, eidetic reduction method (Platonic/Cartesian). em·bod·y /əmˈbädē/ be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling). "a team that embodies competitive spirit and skill" 2. include or contain (something) as a constituent part "the changes in law embodied in the Freedom of Information Act"

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 7 місяців тому

      Thank you for this dissection of a term. Generality (3rdness) is thus something that cannot be exhausted by its instances (2ndness). I've conceptualized generalities as forces that guide and govern their instances, so that 3rdness is the one with agency in a sense.

    • @Synechex
      @Synechex 7 місяців тому

      @@PhiloSign Agency that is not separate (nominalistic), ... because its growing identity and awareness is developed and dependent upon the flow of Logos in immanent and transcendent community (and I would say more than just human community). ... This understanding circles back to semiosis and the momentum it creates in the autopoiesis of manifested living and non-living systems. As a living example, think of a murmuration of starlings (birds who read and respond to Thirdness). .... Glorious and Mystical Cosmos. ✨🙂

  • @Synechex
    @Synechex 7 місяців тому

    Wonderful conversation! Just a thought. .... About 'evil thoughts' ..... In order to process experience and grow (evolve), we need adversarial thought. Contradiction and negation are huge in Peirce's perspective and understanding of Logos. I agree with him on this. Consider Heraclitus's Unity of Opposites in Logos. .... By the way, not many people know this about me. but my path also took me to being very involved in church for a while too. I even taught bible study for a while. I also studied world religions in college. ... To understand this understanding that I found out later aligns so well with Peirce, I suppose it's not unusual to have had some similarities in our paths.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 7 місяців тому

      Great insights. So, in the same vein as there needs to be some external brute force (2ndness) for us to orient and develop our habits, there must also exist evil for us to recognize and learn what is good.

    • @Synechex
      @Synechex 7 місяців тому

      @@PhiloSign I'm not a fan of the word 'evil', since it is so connected to the nominalist vein that runs through certain religious doctrines. I absolutely do not agree with Protestant Christianity's definition of evil, because it is directly associated with the origin of nominalism, which was birthed because the Church wanted to profess and instill in doctrine that God's Will could selectively damn an individual simmer or save an individual saint. I wrote about the history of this in my essay 'There is No 'I' without the 'Not I''. ... So no, I do not believe in THAT concept of 'evil'. I understand and point to the inherent negation that finds its ground in polarity, contradiction, and opposites. ... I never use the word 'evil' unless I am explaining the history of that concept. ... Fleshing out the differences in these perspectives is definitely a deep dive. 😉

  • @Synechex
    @Synechex 7 місяців тому

    Always wonderful to see and read your work. 😊 .... I've been hard at work myself. We approach these topics from different angles, but with the same goals in mind. Cheers to you, my friend

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 7 місяців тому

      Thank you ! :)

  • @Ano2nymou5
    @Ano2nymou5 7 місяців тому

    ❤❤❤

  • @Nalber3
    @Nalber3 7 місяців тому

    Great playlist, thank you for your effort 😊 Btw, is there an email where can I contact you?

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 7 місяців тому

      Thank you! Yes, my email address is in my channel-info.

  • @luisfilipedeandradesousa3805
    @luisfilipedeandradesousa3805 7 місяців тому

    Saint Thomas Aquinas says Faith is a first principle, we derive all from the account of the First Truth. Faith is Firstness.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 7 місяців тому

      Peirce says that the First Rule of Reason is that "in order to learn you must desire to learn." This requires faith and hope that the universe is knowable and that there is Truth to be found. So, I think it is right to understand faith as a first principle. I wrote about this subject in Substack: philosign.substack.com/p/three-virtues-of-inquiry

  • @Nalber3
    @Nalber3 8 місяців тому

    Hi, thanks for video, quite informative. I want to say I'm not sure about describing the "here and now" in the category of secondness since there isn't really a way to describe the inmediate now, when you think about the now is already the immediate past. I think it fits better in the firstness since it is ungraspable, and yet is always present.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 8 місяців тому

      Thanks for the comment! That is certainly one way to approach the issue. However, 2ndness is in a way also ungraspable as it is an individual event, a snapshot. The experience of something graspable always requires 3rdness, as it must be coherent and continuous. With the "here and now" I meant the "thisness", that something is here and now forcefully present. Peirce describes 2ndness as "anything’s being that which another makes it to be here and now.".

    • @Nalber3
      @Nalber3 7 місяців тому

      @@PhiloSign that sounds reasonable, I have yet to GRASP what does he really mean by his categories! Thanks for the response

  • @a-guess-at-the-riddle
    @a-guess-at-the-riddle 8 місяців тому

    This was a very stimulating interview that made some significant notions clear to me.

  • @Nalber3
    @Nalber3 8 місяців тому

    Just found this channel, thanks a lot! I just discovered Peirce a few months ago ❤

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 8 місяців тому

      Welcome to the channel! I'm glad you're here and interested in Peirce's work. If you have any questions about Peirce's ideas, feel free to reach out. Enjoy exploring!

  • @anthonymount1275
    @anthonymount1275 8 місяців тому

    Cool discussion. I've been wanting Dr. Ward's book ever since it came out. Alas, it is way too expensive. Maybe someday.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 8 місяців тому

      It was dense, but a good read, full of inspiring ideas. I think Ward's argument that religion was the driving force for Peirce is pretty convincing.

  • @mikelemon5109
    @mikelemon5109 8 місяців тому

    Are the refeerences for "sense musing" afailable for sharing?

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 7 місяців тому

      Do you mean the diagrams?

  • @darrellee8194
    @darrellee8194 8 місяців тому

    Get to the point man.

  • @arrocoda3590
    @arrocoda3590 9 місяців тому

    Opinion on Bernardo Kastrup? I have found similarities between Peirce's metaphysical Semiotics and Kastrup's Analytical Idealism, and I believe Peirce's metaphysical semiotics could mesh pretty well with BK's theory of the Disassociative Boundary.

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 9 місяців тому

      I'm not familiar with Kastrups work, but there is probably a lot of overlap. I have to watch an interview or two, to give you a better answer.

  • @luyombojonathan6688
    @luyombojonathan6688 10 місяців тому

    Thank you alot !!! UA-cam has few lessons in semiotics

  • @horsymandias-ur
    @horsymandias-ur 11 місяців тому

    I think when Sam Harris says that humans are “open,” I think he means that we are just as extrinsically determined as we are intrinsically

  • @horsymandias-ur
    @horsymandias-ur 11 місяців тому

    Could a determinist afford to keep modal logic? Simply in terms of language, what is it that a determinist’s words would refer to when they would speak of a possible world?

    • @PhiloSign
      @PhiloSign 7 місяців тому

      Interesting point. Is the whole idea of representation something illusory for the determinist?

  • @kimmanning2913
    @kimmanning2913 11 місяців тому

    FATNESS

  • @anafabia4122
    @anafabia4122 11 місяців тому

    This is the best explanation i've found until now