Comments on Donna West’s Essay (2019) "Thirdness along the Intuitional Path"

By Razie Mah

Donna West, professor at State University of New York at Courtland, publishes an essay of interest to both postmoderns and scholastics. What are the preconditions for the emergence of event relations? How do humans prepare for objective intellection? How do we figure out what is happening?
The spotlight falls of Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), author of Degrees of Knowledge, and Charles Peirce (1839-1914), the founder of postmodern semiotics.
These comments construct category-based nested forms and judgments out of West’s exploration. Specificative and the exemplar formal causalities come into play. These are developed in Comments on John Deely’s Book (1994) New Beginnings. Also, the positivist and empirio-schematic judgments enter the scene. These first appear in Comments on Jacques Maritain’s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy.
There is more than one way to portray intuition. These comments embellish West’s inquiry in unexpected ways.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Razie Mah
• Release date: Nov 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9781942824794

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Comments on Donna West’s Essay (2019) Thirdness along the Intuitional Path

By Razie Mah

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2019

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This work comments on an essay by Dr. Donna E. West, appearing in 2019 in Studia Gilsoniana (volume 8, number 2, pages 431-475). The complete title is Thirdness along the Intuitional Path: Reflections from Maritain and Peirce. Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) aims to recover the scholastic tradition. Charles Peirce (1839-1914) is the first postmodern semiotician. My goal is to comment on this work using the category-based nested form and other relational models.

‘Words that belong together’ are denoted by single quotes or italics.

Prerequisites: A Primer on the Category-Based Nested Form, A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction

Recommended: Comments on Jacques Maritain’s Book (1935) Natural Philosophy and Comments on John Deely’s Book (1994) New Beginnings

Table of Contents

Introduction and…

…Example

An Opening Gambit

Intellectual Apprehension and Intuition

My Closing Gambit

Introduction and…

0001 Donna West is an expert on the American philosopher Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914). This accounts for the word thirdness in the title. Thirdness is a category containing three elements. In the category-based nested form, the normal context belongs to thirdness.

The other two categories are secondness, the dyadic realm of actuality, and firstness, the monadic realm of possibility.

0002 These join in a triadic relation, the category-based nested form (CBNF), which has the following structure.

0003 As noted in The Primer on the Category-Based Nested