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‘Thought’ (pub. 13.10.15-16:06). 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-31.
Term: 
Thought
Quote: 

…thoughts ought to be regarded as signs. Let anybody call to mind some recent earnest self-deliberation, and I think he will acknowledge that it took a dialogic form, every reasoning appealing to the self of the near following moment of time for assent and confirmation.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 318.
References: 
EP 2:428-9; MS [R] 318:39
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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