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‘Learning’ (pub. 10.06.14-18:50). 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-one-two-three-fundamental-categories-thought-and-nature-7.
Term: 
Learning
Quote: 

It seems, then, that the true categories of consciousness are: first, feeling, the consciousness which can be included with an instant of time, passive consciousness of quality, without recognition or analysis; second, consciousness of an interruption into the field of consciousness, sense of resistance, of an external fact, of another something; third, synthetic consciousness, binding time together, sense of learning, thought.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1885). One, Two, Three: Fundamental Categories of Thought and of Nature. MS [R] 901.
References: 
CP 1.377
Date of Quote: 
1885
URL: 

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