Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Existence’ (pub. 19.03.18-10:30). 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-3.

Term:

Existence

Quote:

That mode of being which we call existence, the reaction of everything in the universe against every other, the crowding out of a place for itself, acting most on things near, less on things far, but brutally insisting on a place is Secundan. I say “brutally”, because no law, so far as we know, makes any single object to exist. Law only determines in what way things shall behave, once they do exist.

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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