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‘Experience’ (pub. 16.10.15-16:52). 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-85.
Term: 
Experience
Quote: 

An experience […] is a single event, or is an expectation of it; and no sum of single objects can make up a general. An experience, or the generalization of experiences, seems to me to be rather the object determining a concept than the meaning determined by it.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1907). Pragmatism. MS [R] 319.
References: 
MS [R] 319:8
Date of Quote: 
1907
URL: 

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