The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Letters to William James’

Quote: 

The phaneron, as I now call it, the sum total all of the contents of human consciousness, which I believe is about what you (borrowing the term of Avenarius) call pure experience, – but I do not admit the point of view of Avenarius to be correct or to be consonant to any pragmatism, nor to yours, in particular, and therefore I do not like that phrase. For me experience is what life has forced upon us, – a vague idea no doubt. But my phaneron is not limited to what is forced upon us; it also embraces all that we most capriciously conjure up, not objects only but all modes of contents of cognitional consciousness.

Date: 
1905
References: 
NEM 3:834
Citation: 
‘Phaneron’ (pub. 06.02.13-18:05). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letters-william-james-2.
Posted: 
Feb 06, 2013, 18:05 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Feb 28, 2018, 17:22 by Mats Bergman