Quote from "The Bed-Rock Beneath Pragmaticism"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Possibility’ (pub. 22.09.14-12:33). 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-3.

Term:

Possibility

Quote:

...the Possible is an ingredient of the Truth which, in consequence of its vagueness, must remain a thought and can never be more than an idea except by taking on a definiteness that does belong to it in itself…

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-3