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‘Reason’ (pub. 18.03.18-12:12). 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-lecture-i-r-12.
Term: 
Reason
Quote: 

The very being of the General, of Reason, consists in its governing individual events. So, then, the essence of Reason is such that its being never can have been completely perfected. It always must be in a state of incipiency, of growth.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). Lecture I [R]. MS [R] 449.
References: 
MS [R] 449:45; EP 2:255
Date of Quote: 
1903
URL: 

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