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‘Person’ (pub. 21.10.15-19:24). 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-mans-glassy-essence-0.
Term: 
Person
Quote: 

…a person is only a particular kind of general idea. Long ago, in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy (Vol. II, p. 156), I pointed out that a person is nothing but a symbol involving a general idea; but my views were, then, too nominalistic to enable me to see that every general idea has the unified living feeling of a person.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1892). Man's Glassy Essence. The Monist, 3, 1-22.
References: 
W 8:182; CP 6.270
Date of Quote: 
1892
URL: 

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