May 2012
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“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger (via seabois)
April 2012
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“Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And...”
– Carl Sagan
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that...”
– Lawrence M. Krauss
May 2011
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“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of...”
– Edward Sapir
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Peirce's Reality
Peircian semiotics is based around Peirce’s distinction between three ways of being —- Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. For Peirce, these three irreducible categories constitute both the different kinds of human thought and, more generally, the planes of reality. Thus, Peirce’s ways of being are pre-semiotic. The distinction between these three realms permeates...