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‘Real’ (pub. 06.09.15-19:40). 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-meaning-real-r-0.
Term: 
Real
Quote: 

What we can in some measure know is our universe in such a sense that we cannot mean anything of what may be “beyond.” But the Ding an sich is very different from my idea of the Real, which is what I opine, or incline to believe that the men wisest about it will some day come unceasingly (as long as such wise men there be) to opine to be be an element of the truth.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1913). On the Meaning of "Real" [R]. MS [R] 930.
References: 
MS [R] 930:24-5
Date of Quote: 
1913
URL: 

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