Quote from "The Fourth Curiosity"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘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:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-fourth-curiosity-6