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‘Experience’ (pub. 21.04.13-18:24). 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-neglected-argument-reality-god-o-4.
Term: 
Experience
Quote: 

An “Experience” is a brutally produced conscious effect that contributes to a habit, self-controlled, yet so satisfying, on deliberation, as to be destructible by no positive exercise of internal vigour.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1908). A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God (O). MS [R] 841.
References: 
CP 6.454
Date of Quote: 
1908
URL: 

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