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‘Experience’ (pub. 19.03.18-10:28). 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-mario-calderoni-2.
Term: 
Experience
Quote: 

Experience may be defined as the cognitive element which the course of life has brutally forced upon me, without reason. It implies a conservative, inert clinging to former ideas which has been conquered. This purely brute force is Secundan.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1905). Letters to Mario Calderoni. MS [R] L67.
References: 
MS [R] L67
Date of Quote: 
1905
Editorial Annotations: 

This passage has been obtained from the transcription provided by the Peirce Study Group at the University of Navarra

URL: 

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