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‘Person’ (pub. 21.10.15-12:46). 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-logic-and-spiritualism-r-1.
Term: 
Person
Quote: 

Habit tends to coordinate feelings, which are thus brought into the order of Time, into the order of Space. Feelings coordinated in a certain way, to a certain degree, constitute a person; on their being dissociated (as habits do sometimes get broken up), the personality disappears.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1890). Logic and Spiritualism [R]. MS [R] 878.
References: 
W 6:393; CP 6.585
Date of Quote: 
1890
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