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‘Collection’ (pub. 29.09.14-10:40). 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-lowell-lectures-1903-lecture-3-4.
Term: 
Collection
Quote: 

A Collection is anything whose being consists in the existence of whatever there may exist that has any one quality; and if such thing or things exist, the collection is a single thing whose existence consists in the existence of all those very things.

According to this definition, a collection is an ens rationis. [—] A collection has essence and may have existence.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1903). Lowell Lectures. 1903. Lecture 3. MS [R] 459.
References: 
MS [R] 459:36-37
Date of Quote: 
1903
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