Habit

Keyword: Habit


Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/10/2015
Quote from "Design and Chance [W]"

The main element of habit is the tendency to repeat any action which has been performed before. It is a phenomenon at least coëxtensive with life, and it may cover a still wider real realm.

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Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/10/2015
Quote from "A Theory of Probable Inference"

In point of fact, a syllogism in Barbara virtually takes place when we irritate the foot of a decapitated frog. The connection between the afferent and efferent nerve, whatever it may be,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/10/2015
Quote from "Deduction, Induction, and Hypothesis"

Induction infers a rule. Now, the belief of a rule is a habit. That a habit is a rule active in us, is evident. That every belief is of the nature of a habit, in so...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/10/2015
Quote from "How to Make Our Ideas Clear"

…what a thing means is simply what habits it involves. Now, the identity of a habit depends on how it might lead us to act, not merely under such circumstances as are likely to arise, but under...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/10/2015
Quote from "Some Consequences of Four Incapacities"

Attention produces effects upon the nervous system. These effects are habits, or nervous associations. A habit arises, when, having had the sensation of performing a certain act, m, on...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 19/10/2015
Quote from "Prag [R]"

a habit is a general mode of action.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 16/10/2015
Quote from "Note (Notes on Art. III) [R]"

…I should think that the performance of a certain line of behavior, throughout an endless succession of occasions, without exception, very decidedly constituted a habit. There may be some...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

By a habit I mean any modification of a person’s disposition, or tendency, when actuated by certain desires, to respond to perceptual conditions, by conduct of a certain...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Pragmatism"

the generalization of effort is habit.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 13/10/2015
Quote from "Notes on Portions of Hume's "Treatise on Human Nature""

A habit is the general way in which one would act if such and such a general kind of occasion were to occur. To say it really explains anything is to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015
Quote from "Hume's Argument against Miracles, and the Idea of Natural Law (Hume)"

A habit is a state of a man in consequence of which he will on occasions of a certain description act in a certain general way.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015
Quote from "Letters to F. A. Woods"

A conditional proposition, – say “If A, then B” is equivalent to saying that “Any state of things in which A should be true, would (within limits) be a state of things...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 06/09/2015
Quote from "A Study of How to Reason Safely and Efficiently"

by a Habit I shall mean a character of anything, say of B, this character consisting in the fact that under circumstances of a certain kind, say A, B would...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/09/2015
Quote from "A Sketch of Logical Critic"

I propose to apply the word [“habit”] to any lasting state of a person or thing which consists in the fact that he, she, or it would behave in a certain way on any...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 05/09/2015
Quote from "First Introduction"

the state which consists in the fact that upon any occasion of any particular description, A, one would behave in any particular manner, B, is all I mean by “...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 20/08/2015
Quote from "Abstracts of 8 Lectures"

…although here and there in physics we may pick up a useful fact or two about habit, we really are obliged to go to the mind for the bulk of our information about it.

But even from the...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 18/08/2015
West, Donna: "The Call to Dialogue through Habit"

The Peircean concept of habit embodies the kind of novel inferencing which dialogue ultimately affords, especially internal dialogue. This is so, given that Peircean habit defies conformity to...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 30/04/2015
Quote from "A Sketch of Logical Critic"

I use the word “habit” in its old, and I think not yet quite obsolete sense, in which it denotes any lasting state whether of a person or a thing, this state...

Encyclopedia Article | Posted 20/02/2015
Rosenthal, Sandra: "Proofs of realism and experiential flow"

Peirce stresses that the pragmatist qua pragmatist must embrace realism as opposed to nominalism. He offers as well “proofs” of realism which are open to various criticisms. Within the framework...

Manuscript | Posted 11/01/2015
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures. 1903. Sixth Lecture. Probability. MS [R] 472

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., 2 notebooks, G-1903-2a, pp. 2-130.
Published, in part, as 6.88-97 (pp. 8-62). Omitted: the relationship between logic and mathematics; independence of...

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