Habit as a law of mind: A Peircean approach to habit in cultural and mental phenomena
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Consensus on Peirce’s Concept of Habit: Before and Beyond Consciousness. ed. / Donna E. West; Myrdene Anderson. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2016. p. 401-419 (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics; Vol. 31).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Habit as a law of mind
T2 - A Peircean approach to habit in cultural and mental phenomena
AU - Bisanz, Elize
AU - Cunningham, Scott
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In The Architecture of Theories and The Law of Mind, Charles S. Peirce declares the categories of Chance and Continuity as determinant for the emergence and evolution of ideas on their way from individuality to generality. Ideas, as the emergence of mental activity, spread continuously affecting other ideas and establish patterns of activities. In this process of spreading they lose energy intensity and by merging into other ideas gain generality. Hence, ideas embody both individuality in the sense of occurring once, and continuity as the bonding law of cultural unity, through the force of habit. For Peirce, all thought, including the manifestation of ideas, is performed by means of signs (Peirce 1868: 103-114) anchored in sign-systems. Accordingly, general ideas are performed by general signs called symbols. Symbols are the most fundamental sign-category used to develop and establish cultural “evolution” (Cassirer 1953). Being general ideas, symbols also follow the laws of individuality and continuity. This paper will compare the function of patterns and regularities in mind activity with the function of symbol activity in the establishment of cultural patterns and will argue that both phenomena can be understood as the result of the law of habit.
AB - In The Architecture of Theories and The Law of Mind, Charles S. Peirce declares the categories of Chance and Continuity as determinant for the emergence and evolution of ideas on their way from individuality to generality. Ideas, as the emergence of mental activity, spread continuously affecting other ideas and establish patterns of activities. In this process of spreading they lose energy intensity and by merging into other ideas gain generality. Hence, ideas embody both individuality in the sense of occurring once, and continuity as the bonding law of cultural unity, through the force of habit. For Peirce, all thought, including the manifestation of ideas, is performed by means of signs (Peirce 1868: 103-114) anchored in sign-systems. Accordingly, general ideas are performed by general signs called symbols. Symbols are the most fundamental sign-category used to develop and establish cultural “evolution” (Cassirer 1953). Being general ideas, symbols also follow the laws of individuality and continuity. This paper will compare the function of patterns and regularities in mind activity with the function of symbol activity in the establishment of cultural patterns and will argue that both phenomena can be understood as the result of the law of habit.
KW - Bonding (weld)
KW - Energy
KW - Individuality
KW - Reason (reasoning)
KW - Symbolic form
KW - Science of art
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019673652&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-45920-2_22
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-45920-2_22
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85019673652
SN - 978-3-319-45918-9
SN - 978-3-319-83399-6
T3 - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
SP - 401
EP - 419
BT - Consensus on Peirce’s Concept of Habit
A2 - West, Donna E.
A2 - Anderson, Myrdene
PB - Springer International Publishing AG
CY - Cham
ER -