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‘Percept’ (pub. 26.07.15-18:22). 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-pearsons-grammar-science-annotations-first-three-chapters.
Term: 
Percept
Quote: 

Our logically initial data are percepts. Those percepts are undoubtedly purely psychical, altogether of the nature of thought. They involve three kinds of psychical elements, their qualities of feelings, their reaction against my will, and their generalizing or associating element. But all that we find out afterward.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1901). Pearson's Grammar of Science: Annotations on the First Three Chapters. Popular Science Monthly, 58, 296-306.
References: 
EP 2:62; CP 8.144
Date of Quote: 
1901
URL: 

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