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‘Experience’ (pub. 12.01.15-18:26). 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-minute-logic-chapter-iii-simplest-mathematics-2.
Term: 
Experience
Quote: 

What is experience? It is the resultant ideas that have been forced upon us. We find we cannot summon up what images we like. Try to banish an idea and it only comes home with greater violence later.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1902). Minute Logic: Chapter III. The Simplest Mathematics. MS [R] 429.
References: 
CP 4.318
Date of Quote: 
1902
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