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‘Nominalism’ (pub. 03.04.15-15:53). 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-23.
Term: 
Nominalism
Quote: 

The nominalistic color which an apparent accident made ascendant even to this day throughout European philosophy is merely that perversion of pragmatism which consists in denying any other mode of real being than existence.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907 [c.]). Pragmatism. MS [R] 320.
References: 
MS [R] 320:18
Date of Quote: 
1907 [c.]
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