Published on Commens (http://www.commens.org)

Home > Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture III"

Commens
Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce
‘Thirdness’ (pub. 09.01.13-18:36). 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-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-iii-1.
Term: 
Thirdness
Quote: 

Category the Third is the Idea of that which is such as it is as being a Third, or Medium, between a Second and its First. That is to say, it is Representation as an element of the Phenomenon.

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

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-iii-1