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‘Actuality’ (pub. 22.09.14-12:26). 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-bed-rock-beneath-pragmaticism-2.
Term: 
Actuality
Quote: 

…the Actual, – the simple unmodalized Fact, – is that ingredient of the Truth the acknowledgement of which may be forced on the mind by experience, but can never receive a definite rational explanation free from any arbitrary element…

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1908). The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism. MS [R] 300.
References: 
MS [R] 300:39
Date of Quote: 
1908
Editorial Annotations: 

From what appears to be the second run of manuscript pages; possibly an earlier draft [MB]

URL: 

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