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‘Secondness’ (pub. 16.09.14-14:48). 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-notebook-0.
Term: 
Secondness
Quote: 

In the contents of consciousness we recognize three sorts of elements, Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness. [—] What a Second is depends partly on another, but is regardless of any third, and thus of any reason. [—] Firstness is feeling-quality; secondness is brute reaction; thirdness is mediation.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1865-1909). The Logic Notebook. MS [R] 339.
References: 
MS [R] 339:108r
Date of Quote: 
1898-06-11
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