Quote from "The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Firstness’ (pub. 08.01.13-19:12). 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-critic-arguments-ii-reader-introduced-relatives-0.

Term:

Firstness

Quote:

I will only mention here that the ideas which belong to the three forms of rhemata are firstness, secondness, thirdness; firstness, or spontaneity; secondness, or dependence; thirdness, or mediation.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1892). The Critic of Arguments. II. The Reader is Introduced to Relatives. The Open Court, 6, 3415-3418.

References:

CP 3.422

Date of Quote:

1892

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-critic-arguments-ii-reader-introduced-relatives-0