Quasi-mind

Keyword: Quasi-mind


Manuscript | Posted 18/08/2013
Peirce, Charles S. (1906 [c.]). On Signs [R]. MS [R] 793

From the Robin Catalogue:
A. MS., n.p., n.d., pp. 1-4, 10-14; plus 9 pp. of variants and 1 p. (fragment).
An attempt to define “sign” as a medium for the communication of form....

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "Letters to Lady Welby"

I almost despair of making clear what I mean by a “quasi-mind;” But I will try. A thought is not per se in any mind or quasi-mind. I mean this in the same sense as I might say...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "The Basis of Pragmaticism"

quasi-mind is an object which from whatever standpoint it be examined, must evidently have, like anything else, its special qualities of susceptibility to determination...

Dictionary Entry | Posted 14/04/2013
Quote from "Prolegomena to an Apology for Pragmaticism"

Thought is not necessarily connected with a brain. It appears in the work of bees, of crystals, and throughout the purely physical world; and one can no more deny that it is really there, than...