Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Degenerate Secondness’ (pub. 19.03.18-11:17). 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-7.

Term:

Degenerate Secondness

Quote:

…that Secundanity which consists in one man’s having a stature of 6 feet and another man’s having a stature of 5 feet is a degenerate Secundanity, since each would be just what he is if the other were not there, and would be Second in the same way to a merely possible but non-existent man.

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1905). Letters to Mario Calderoni. MS [R] L67.

References:

MS [R] L67:32-33

Date of Quote:

1905

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letters-mario-calderoni-7