Quality of Feeling

Keyword: Quality of Feeling


Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Letters to William James"

If we imagine that feeling retains its positive character but absolutely loses all relation, (and thereby all vividness, which is only the sense of shock), it no longer is exactly what we...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "On Topical Geometry, in General (T)"

Qualities […] constitute the first category. A quality of feeling is perfectly simple, in itself; though a quality thought over and thus mixed with other elements,...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Logic of Continuity"

The sense-quality is a feeling. Even if you say it is a slumbering feeling, that does not make it less intense; perhaps the reverse. For it is the absence of reaction, – of...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III"

Category the First is the Idea of that which is such as it is regardless of anything else. That is to say, it is a Quality of Feeling.

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture II"

In short, any simple and positive quality of feeling would be something which our description fits, – that it is such as it is quite regardless of anything else. The quality of feeling is the true...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "(Prag) [R]"

…every simple idea is composed of one of three classes; and a compound idea is in most cases predominantly of one of those classes. Namely, it may, in the first place, be a...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/10/2015
Quote from "Logic viewed as Semeiotics. Introduction. Number 2. Phaneroscopy"

Among phanerons there are certain qualities of feeling, such as the color of magenta, the odor of attar, the sound of a railway whistle, the taste of quinine, the quality of the emotion upon...

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

A quality of feeling is a mode of consciousness that is, first, positive, so that it might be a whole life; second, is within itself all that it is; and third, can only be...

Manuscript | Posted 23/09/2014
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 453

Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, n.p., 1903, pp. 1-37.
Science hampered by the false notion that there is no distinction between good and bad reasoning. This notion related to...

Manuscript | Posted 08/01/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1903). Lowell Lectures on Some Topics of Logic Bearing on Questions Now Vexed. Part 1 of 3rd draught of 3rd Lecture. MS [R] 464

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., notebook, G-1903-2a, begun October 8, 1903, pp. 1-64, 68.
Published in two places: 1.324 and 1.343-349 (pp. 30-34 and 36-64 respectively). Note...