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Term: 
Quality
Quote: 

A quality is whatever it is in itself. It has such mode of being as it has independently of any other quality, of existing in any subject, and of being represented.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1904). On the Foundations of Mathematics. MS [R] 8.
References: 
MS [R] 8:1-2
Date of Quote: 
1904
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