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Term: 
Suggestion
Quote: 

What is, far more than unyielding uniformity, characteristic of the phenomenon of suggestion, as the calling up of an idea through association is called, is its gentleness.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1893 [c.]). Grand Logic: Book I. Of Reasoning in General. Introduction. The Association of Ideas. MS [R] 400.
References: 
CP 7.388
Date of Quote: 
1893 [c.]
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