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‘Matter’ (pub. 21.10.15-13:26). 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-3.
Term: 
Matter
Quote: 

Feelings over whose relations to their neighbors habit has acquired such an empire that we detect no trace of spontaneity in their actions, are known as deadĀ matter.

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

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