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‘Habit’ (pub. 26.05.14-15:25). 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-pragmatism-18.
Term: 
Habit
Quote: 

[Readiness] to act in a certain way under given circumstances and when actuated by a given motive is a habit; and a deliberate, or self-controlled, habit is precisely a belief.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.
References: 
CP 5.480
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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