Quote from "Issues of Pragmaticism"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Necessity’ (pub. 22.09.14-12:57). 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-issues-pragmaticism-14.

Term:

Necessity

Quote:

…when knowledge is indeterminate among alternatives, either there is one state of things which alone accords with them all, when this is in the Mode of Necessity, or there is more than one state of things that no knowledge excludes, when each of these is in the Mode of Possibility.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1905). Issues of Pragmaticism. The Monist, 15(4), 481-499.

References:

CP 5.454

Date of Quote:

1905

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-issues-pragmaticism-14