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Term: 
Percept
Quote: 

The percepts, could I make sure what they were, constitute experience proper, that which I am forced to accept. But whether they are experience of the real world, or only experience of a dream, is a question which I have no means of answering with absolute certainty.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter II. Section II. Why Study Logic? . MS [R] 428.
References: 
CP 2.142
Date of Quote: 
1902
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