Quote from "On the Logic of Quantity"

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Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Observation’ (pub. 11.09.14-12:46). 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-quantity-2.

Term:

Observation

Quote:

Observation is properly voluntary self-preparation to be promptly affected by that experience which we have learned will be irresistable at last; but the word observation comes to be applied to the sensory elements in the whole process of being affected by cognitive experience …

Source:

Peirce, C. S. (1895 [c.]). On the Logic of Quantity. MS [R] 17.

References:

MS [R] 17:8

Date of Quote:

1895 [c.]

URL:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-logic-quantity-2