‘Existence’ (pub. 29.05.14-18:28). 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-4.
Quote:
A brute force, as, for example, an existent particle […] is nothing for itself; whatever it is, it is for what it is attracting and what it is repelling: its being is actual, consists in action, is dyadic. That is what I call existence.
Source:
Peirce, C. S. (1907). The Fourth Curiosity. MS [R] 200.
URL:
http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-fourth-curiosity-4