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Quote from ‘Review of Josiah Royce's The World and the Individual, Vol. 1’

Quote: 

The course of life has developed certain compulsions of thought which we speak of collectively as Experience. Moreover, the inquirer more or less vaguely identifies himself in sentiment with a Community of which he is a member, and which includes, for example, besides his momentary self, his self of ten years hence; and he speaks of the resultant cognitive compulsions of the course of life of that community as Our Experience. He says “we” find that terrestrial bodies have a component acceleration towards the earth of 980 centimetres per second, though neither he nor many of his acquaintances have ever made the experiment.

Date: 
1900
References: 
CP 8.101
Citation: 
‘Community’ (pub. 07.04.13-11:48). 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-review-josiah-royces-world-and-individual-vol-1.
Posted: 
Apr 07, 2013, 11:48 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 00:58 by Commens Admin