Quote from "The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘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:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-bed-rock-beneath-pragmaticism-2