ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an outline of Charles Sanders Peirce's phenomenology and his kainopythagorean categories. Its focus is on education as a phenomenon of Thirdness. Learning is a prototypical phenomenon of Thirdness, the category of signs, semiosis, continuity and habit taking. The categorial features of learning and education as phenomena of Thirdness are reasoning, interpretation, continuity, flow of time, generality, semiotic growth, habit taking and habit change. Learning new signs is a process of semiosis. The chapter introduces Peirce's distinction between wide learning, as leaning from the denotative aspect of signs, and deep learning, as learning from signification. It discusses Peirce's classification of pedagogy within the general system of the sciences. Habit, thought, belief and knowledge are among the characteristic phenomena of Thirdness relevant to the philosophy of learning. Other relevant phenomena of Thirdness in learning are habit taking, semiosis, growth, habit and agapasm.
