Quote from "Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Habit"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Law of Association’ (pub. 26.07.15-11:28). 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-cambridge-lectures-reasoning-and-logic-things-habit-0.

Term:

Law of Association

Quote:

…the generalizing tendency is the great law of mind, the law of association, the law of habit taking. We also find in all active protoplasm a tendency to take habits. Hence I was led to the hypothesis that the laws of the universe have been formed under a universal tendency of all things toward generalization and habit-taking.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1898). Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Habit. MS [R] 951.

References:

RLT 241; CP 7.515

Date of Quote:

1898

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-cambridge-lectures-reasoning-and-logic-things-habit-0