Quote from "[Notes on the Categories]"

Commens

Digital Companion to C. S. Peirce

‘Distinction’ (pub. 18.07.15-18:23). 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-2.

Term:

Distinction

Quote:

…even when one element cannot even be supposed without another, they may ofttimes be distinguished from one another. Thus we can neither imagine nor suppose a taller without a shorter, yet we can distinguish the taller from the shorter. I call this mode of separation Distinction.

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:

http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-notes-categories-2