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‘Figment’ (pub. 06.09.15-12:39). 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-how-make-our-ideas-clear-5.
Term: 
Figment
Quote: 

A figment is a product of somebody’s imagination; it has such characters as his thought impresses upon it.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1878). How to Make Our Ideas Clear. Popular Science Monthly, 12, 286-302.
References: 
W 3:271; CP 5.405
Date of Quote: 
1878
URL: 

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