Quote from "Lecture I [R]"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘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:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-lecture-i-r-12