Quote from "The Fourth Curiosity"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Entelechy’ (pub. 05.09.15-17:16). 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-fourth-curiosity-1.

Term:

Entelechy

Quote:

The mode of being of the composition of thought, which is always of the nature of the attribution of a predicate to a subject, is the living intelligence which is the creator of all intelligible reality, as well as of the knowledge of such reality. It is the entelechy, or perfection of being.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1907). The Fourth Curiosity. MS [R] 200.

References:

CP 6.341

Date of Quote:

1907

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-fourth-curiosity-1