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‘Figment’ (pub. 06.09.15-12:20). 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-6.
Term: 
Figment
Quote: 

…the question of whether anything is real or is a figment is the question what a word or other symbol or concept denotes. If the attributes of or possible true assertions about an object could vary according to the way in which you or I or any man or actual body of single men, living at any time or times, might think about that object, then that object is what I call a figment.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). The Fourth Curiosity. MS [R] 200.
References: 
CP 6.328
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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