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‘Prescission’ (pub. 18.07.15-18:12). 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-notes-categories-0.
Term: 
Prescission
Quote: 

…even in cases where two conceptions cannot be separated in the imagination, we can often suppose one without the other, that is we can imagine data from which we should be led to believe in a state of things where one was separated from the other. Thus, we can suppose uncolored space, though we cannot dissociate space from color. I call this mode of separation Prescission.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1885). Notes on the Categories [R]. MS [R] 895; MS [W] 545.
References: 
W 5:238; CP 1.353
Date of Quote: 
1885
URL: 

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