Quote from "Letter to J. H. Kehler"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Belief’ (pub. 06.03.16-19:07). 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-letter-j-h-kehler-7.

Term:

Belief

Quote:

…believing, real genuine belief, consists in a habit with which one is contented and which one usually recognizes (though not always)[,], this habit consisting in the general fact that under certain circumstances one would act in a definite way, and would be content to do so.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1911). Letter to J. H. Kehler. L [R] 231.

References:

NEM 3:191; MS [R] 764

Date of Quote:

1911

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letter-j-h-kehler-7