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CP 1.23. My view is that there are three modes of being. I hold that we can directly observe them in elements of whatever is at any time before the mind in any way. They are the being of positive qualitative possibility, the being of actual fact, and the being of law that will govern facts in the future. END
There are 483 references to the term "positive" in CP, the massive, online, free, text that contains the bulk of his published and never-published writings.
We have reached the point in the Forum when we can focus on the positive content in Peirce that makes it clear that his thought is the basis for a true revaluation of life, existence, possibility.
We may say that others performed the function of clearing the way. I see Nietzsche and Wittgenstein as primary in this work, and a legion of thinkers and doers who have always been positive and triadic in their approach to things. But today the world is moving inexorably into the sunshine of universal light. It is coming down to each person. As one is positive, one is the truth and the beauty that is the essence of love and of Reality.
This post is earth-shaking in its declaration of human potential.
Peirce notes three ways that we are. The first is "positive qualitative possibility". Consider! All three terms reinforce one another. Their end, if we understand Peirce is to understand that we are possibility, that we are positive and that our positivity has what Robert Pirsig called quality, the ineffable nature of what cannot be put into words but is best understood as the attainment of agape or unconditional love.
The second state of being that is us is that of actual fact. This is an honest awareness of our situation. Most of us have within our actuality facts that we do not want, that bring us down, that underlie patterns we rely on to remain miserable. Peirce knows that we can do one of two things with the actual facts we face. We can zap them. Or we can see their positive, qualitative truth and affirm and adjust them to suit our present and future. We need be prey to nothing negative. We are the creator of the facts of our life by saying what they are, not by accepting things as inevitable or fated.
Peirce is saying face reality but realize that what it is is always up to you. Now.
Finally Peirce says the payoff thing, the fruit of his pragmatic maxim evolved into pragmaticism, his final understanding of what he was up to as a philosopher, his answer to the misunderstandings of others.
He says that the aim of existence is laws that will govern the facts of the future.
What could be more plain?
We are the captains of our minds, our thoughts. We are captive only if we do not allow reality to show itself in full dress. Full dress is awareness of possibility, awareness of freedom. of chance, of changeability, of power. It is a clear awareness of assets and liabilities, the facts of our lives. These may be positive wonders we want to hold onto at all costs, so hold on to them. But if we honestly observe what is not helping, what is eating away at us, what we do not need anymore, what hurts and hobbles us, then we are ready to become what Nietzsche honored above all occupations -- lawgivers.
Yes. we proceed to the third and crucial resolution. We accentuate the positive and zap the negative. We become courageous managers of our own positive future. And what we are always engaging in is improving our habits, what we tell ourselves is best.
And tell we do. Our thoughts are acts. They affect the cells of our body. They resonate to the universe. They change all reality.
Before, we were ciphers. Now we are deciders, evaluators, doers, positive creators of the future right now.
The facts of the future is whatever we say they are. The facts of our lives are what we say. Positivity is our agenda. Positive thoughts. Positive results.
Awareness. Choice. Intent.
There are 483 references to the term "positive" in CP, the massive, online, free, text that contains the bulk of his published and never-published writings.
We have reached the point in the Forum when we can focus on the positive content in Peirce that makes it clear that his thought is the basis for a true revaluation of life, existence, possibility.
We may say that others performed the function of clearing the way. I see Nietzsche and Wittgenstein as primary in this work, and a legion of thinkers and doers who have always been positive and triadic in their approach to things. But today the world is moving inexorably into the sunshine of universal light. It is coming down to each person. As one is positive, one is the truth and the beauty that is the essence of love and of Reality.
This post is earth-shaking in its declaration of human potential.
Peirce notes three ways that we are. The first is "positive qualitative possibility". Consider! All three terms reinforce one another. Their end, if we understand Peirce is to understand that we are possibility, that we are positive and that our positivity has what Robert Pirsig called quality, the ineffable nature of what cannot be put into words but is best understood as the attainment of agape or unconditional love.
The second state of being that is us is that of actual fact. This is an honest awareness of our situation. Most of us have within our actuality facts that we do not want, that bring us down, that underlie patterns we rely on to remain miserable. Peirce knows that we can do one of two things with the actual facts we face. We can zap them. Or we can see their positive, qualitative truth and affirm and adjust them to suit our present and future. We need be prey to nothing negative. We are the creator of the facts of our life by saying what they are, not by accepting things as inevitable or fated.
Peirce is saying face reality but realize that what it is is always up to you. Now.
Finally Peirce says the payoff thing, the fruit of his pragmatic maxim evolved into pragmaticism, his final understanding of what he was up to as a philosopher, his answer to the misunderstandings of others.
He says that the aim of existence is laws that will govern the facts of the future.
What could be more plain?
We are the captains of our minds, our thoughts. We are captive only if we do not allow reality to show itself in full dress. Full dress is awareness of possibility, awareness of freedom. of chance, of changeability, of power. It is a clear awareness of assets and liabilities, the facts of our lives. These may be positive wonders we want to hold onto at all costs, so hold on to them. But if we honestly observe what is not helping, what is eating away at us, what we do not need anymore, what hurts and hobbles us, then we are ready to become what Nietzsche honored above all occupations -- lawgivers.
Yes. we proceed to the third and crucial resolution. We accentuate the positive and zap the negative. We become courageous managers of our own positive future. And what we are always engaging in is improving our habits, what we tell ourselves is best.
And tell we do. Our thoughts are acts. They affect the cells of our body. They resonate to the universe. They change all reality.
Before, we were ciphers. Now we are deciders, evaluators, doers, positive creators of the future right now.
The facts of the future is whatever we say they are. The facts of our lives are what we say. Positivity is our agenda. Positive thoughts. Positive results.
Awareness. Choice. Intent.
