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‘Habit’ (pub. 28.05.18-10:35). 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-meaning-pragmatism-r-0.
Term: 
Habit
Quote: 

…a habit consists in the fact that man or a thing would usually behave in definite way upon any definite sort of occasion and is thus by definition general.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1909). Meaning Pragmatism [R]. MS [R] 621.
References: 
MS [R] 621:39; ILS 216-217
Date of Quote: 
1909
URL: 

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