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‘Matter’ (pub. 21.10.15-13:42). 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-logic-continuity-3.
Term: 
Matter
Quote: 

…dead matter would be merely the final result of the complete induration of habit reducing the free play of feeling and the brute irrationality of effort to complete death.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1898). Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Logic of Continuity. MS [R] 948.
References: 
RLT 261; CP 6.201
Date of Quote: 
1898
URL: 

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