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‘Belief’ (pub. 07.03.16-11:06). 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-13.
Term: 
Belief
Quote: 

…as a pragmaticist I hold a belief to be a determination of a person such that under certain conceivable experiential circumstances he would be led by it to act in a certain way, this determination being usually accompanied by a feeling or a particular quality called a feeling of belief, as well as by special feelings associated with the particular characters of the determination.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). The Fourth Curiosity. MS [R] 200.
References: 
MS [R] 200:91
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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