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‘Collateral Experience’ (pub. 09.08.17-00:48). 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-letters-lady-welby-55.
Term: 
Collateral Experience
Quote: 

A Sign may bring before the Mind, a new hypothesis, or a sentiment, a quality, a respect, a degree, a thing, an event, a law, etc. But it never can convey anything to a person who has not had a direct experience or at least original self-experience of the same object, collateral experience.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (nd). Letters to Lady Welby. MS [R] L463.
References: 
MS [R] L463:14
Date of Quote: 
1908 [c.]
URL: 

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