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‘Matter’ (pub. 21.10.15-13:35). 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-law-mind-11.
Term: 
Matter
Quote: 

…what we call matter is not completely dead, but is merely mind hidebound with habits. It still retains the element of diversification; and in that diversification there is life.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1892). The Law of Mind. The Monist, 2(4), 533-559.
References: 
W 8:155; CP 6.158
Date of Quote: 
1892
URL: 

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