Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘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:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letters-mario-calderoni-2