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Term: 
Firstness
Quote: 

Category the First is the Idea of that which is such as it is regardless of anything else. That is to say, it is a Quality of Feeling. […]

Category the First owing to its Extremely Rudimentary character is not susceptible of any degenerate or weakened modification.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III. MS [R] 308.
References: 
CP 5.66-68
Date of Quote: 
1903
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