Quote from "Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VI"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Perceptual Judgment’ (pub. 19.07.15-16:54). 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-vi-4.

Term:

Perceptual Judgment

Quote:

It is a characteristic of perceptual judgments that each of them relates to some singular to which no other proposition relates directly, but, if it relates to it at all, [it] does so by relating to that perceptual judgment.

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Had I […] asserted that a perceptual judgment could be a universal proposition, I should have fallen into rank absurdity. For reaction is existence and the perceptual judgment is the cognitive product of a reaction.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1903). Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism: Lecture VI. MS [R] 314.

References:

EP 2:209-10; CP 5.153-6

Date of Quote:

1903

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-harvard-lectures-pragmatism-lecture-vi-4