Quote from "Letters to Mario Calderoni"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Genuine Thirdness’ (pub. 19.03.18-11:39). 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-8.

Term:

Genuine Thirdness

Quote:

…Priman Tertianity is that Tertianity which consists in possibilities and Secundan Tertianity is that Tertianity which consists in brute, physical, or quasi-physical facts, while genuine Tertianity consists in rational truths and understandings. The genuine Tertian is again Primanly genuine, Secundanly genuine, and genuinely genuine Tertians, which last are signs.

Source:

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

References:

MS [R] L67:34-35

Date of Quote:

1905

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-letters-mario-calderoni-8