Thirdness along the Intuitional Path: Reflections from Maritain and Peirce

• Authors: West Donna E.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article exposits Maritain’s and Peirce’s account of the preconditions for emergence of event relations. It spotlights Maritain’s model of how to prepare for the receipt of objective intellection, as well as Peirce’s treatment of abductive inferencing. It further identifies the foundational representations (signs) which compel the intuitional/inferencing process. Both Peirce and Maritain advocate that inferring event relations depends upon two distinct kinds of knowledge: from empirical sources in Secondness/sensible experiences, as well as from an objective transcendental state in Firstness. In the latter, intuitions emerge from unbidden pictures vividly flashing across the mind’s eye, while in the former, embodied action templates trace lived experiential paths with objective import.

Keywords

EN

Peirce; Maritain; intuition; inferencing; eidetic visualization; index; event relations; virtual habit; thirdness

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 431-475

Dates

published

2019-06-30

Contributors

author

West Donna E.

• State University of New York at Cortland, N.Y., USA

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Identifiers

ISSN

2577-0314

ISSN

2300-0066

DOI

10.26385/SG.080218